Still in Hospital

Brett is still in hospital, he has had a rough ride again.
The past week has been a bit of a blur.
Brett has e-coli and something completely unpronounceable that ends in cockle.

I'm not dumb just tired. why bother to learn the name of some vile bacteria. - Doctors just kill it now!
the bacteria is from his own body - good that saves me calling in the health inspectors to my house.

On intensive chemo the linings from different areas of your body are stripped away which enables your own bodies 'bugs' to be released into your blood stream. I don't know much more than that because I get sidelined by the phrases 'potentially life threatening  and 'extremely serious' and my favourite 'intensive care again'
Thankfully the bugs are responding to the iv antibiotics - die little critters, die.

Still its been a very testing time, who would think that the nurse taking a set of obs (temperature, blood pressure, oxygen levels) could make your heart beat out of your chest with fear.

This also has been the week of the start of bone marrow procedures. 
You hear nothing but bad news for ages then -Bam

We have meetings and appointments booked incessantly for the next three weeks.
All the baseline assessments are extremely important (apparently) as they help the medical profession ascertain how the bone marrow transplant has effected his general health in the years to come.

What ? did I hear that right - 
Yes.

Our wonderful bone marrow transplant can come at a high cost in the future.

You know what, if we worried about the future and listened to all the never ended stream of negative overtones we would have had a mass family suicide 4 years ago.
Truth is, lets get Brett to that stage and we'll worry then.
If and when he has any long term health problems due to transplant we'll have to cross that bridge then.

The only energy we have right now is just to get to bone marrow, have a successful transplant and get home again.