9:00 AM
Today is starting off sunny and beautiful. They are calling for PM rain. Mike started his day with hyperthermia and now he is in having local hyperthermia. They have put both of the machines on him today which he states is the first time they have done that. One is projected at his lungs and the other at his liver.
Dave from England goes today around 10:00 to have his MRI test. He has pancreatic cancer and had been basically told to just go home and die. We are hoping for the best for him and his wife, Jennifer, who joined him here on Tuesday. Dave leaves for home on Thursday.
4:00 PM
Have some more good news. I won't put this in sequence of the day's events because I want to get it in now. As we were waiting for Christy and Leah to go for a walk, Dr. Weber came by and said Mike's CEA level is now down to 9. He said he would show us the rest of the results tomorrow. I think if there was anything that was not good, he would have told us that at this time. He wanted to make sure we knew what the CEA level was from yesterday's blood test. So far no one has gotten any bad news.
Today's lunch was King Prawns (shrimp) for Mike with Tai rice. I had mushroom rotelli which was ravioli. I cut the first one open hoping I could pick out the mushrooms but they were all ground up. So I tried it. They were actually not bad. In the back of my head, I kept thinking these are filled with mushrooms, but I finished all but two of them. The soup we both had was creamy vegetable which looked like tomato soup but smelled and tasted like vegetable soup. Dessert was baked apple rings with vanilla ice cream. That was very good. Our dinner mate, Dennis is a pretty big guy. I think he may actually be pickier about his food than I am if you can actually believe that. He is basically just a meat and potatoes kind of guy. He won't even eat anything off the salad bar. His favorite thing so far has been the over easy eggs he gets at breakfast.
Mike was going to take Leah up the mountain to Wendelstein because she has not yet been up there. However, she slept wrong last night and had the masseuse try to work it out. She had a hot pack to this area, and he told her to keep her neck warm. Because it is supposed to rain and it is 15 degrees cooler up there, they decided not to go today.
Instead Christy, Leah, Mike, and I walked in to town. Along the way we stopped at the deli so Leah could purchase some coconut milk. She has talked Mike into drinking this as well. We ran into the woman who helped us purchase tickets on our first train ride to Rosenheim. Her name is Gizelle. We also saw her the other day when we went to the grocery store. She asked how everyone was doing. She lives near the clinic in Flintsbach. She is a very nice and friendly person. She was with her husband so we got to meet him. She was wondering how we, the English speaking patients, were doing here as far as the language barrier was concerned. She thought since we had trouble with the train ticket and with the cab driver that maybe the clinic could use her to be an interpreter/liason and help with travel arrangements, day trips, etc. We all thought that would be a good idea. She said that she might call the clinic to inquire about this.
As we walked further into town, we ran into Kate and Ivan who were also out getting a bit of exercise and checking out the shops. Ivan offered us a ride back to the clinic if we wanted it, but we did not take him up on the offer. They are both so very nice. It kept lightly raining off and on as we walked. Luckily we got back to the clinic when the skies decided to open up more and rain harder.
6:00
Dinner tonight was vegetable mushroom pan with potatoes which was just stir fry vegetables/mushrooms with new potatoes. I also had the consomme with dumpling for my soup, Mike stayed with the creamy vegetable soup. Dave and his wife were in the dinning room for supper, and he appeared to be down. He has not yet heard about his MRI results, and I think the wait is making him anxious.
It is still raining, and I think it will continue into the night. I can hear the ran on the roof, and it is a nice sound. Maybe that will lull us to sleep tonight. For now, I think I will spend the remainder of the evening just resting and reading.
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