When I called Kristina today, the big news was it was snowing in Seattle. For you folks outside the Pacific Northwest, this really is news. Usually our moisture falls as water – for six months, sure, but almost never as snow.
Anyway, most of the Kristina-related news is good. Her recovery is going quite well: she’s now off the prednisone steroid, her daily IVs, and the insulin, as well as some drug called flucomazole. That last one is an anti-fungal, she thinks. Understand, she still takes about 50 pills a day (14 different drugs and three “mega-vitamins”), so at some point it gets hard to track what each one does.
The steroid left her with “chipmunk cheeks” and a few pounds put back on, but she’s still below the weight she was at when all this started. She’s doing physical therapy daily – she walks for half an hour and can lift four pounds – and she’s getting hair again ... well, peach fuzz, but it’s darker than what she had before. She never did lose her eyebrows or eyelashes. She’s thinking of getting a brown wig. She said this is the time to try out different looks!
The biggest news of this past week was that a clerical glitch someplace caused all of her health insurance to be briefly cancelled! That got cleared up quickly, but it was spooky.
Okay, there’s other stuff to share, but typing with one arm is a hassle, and besides, we like to keep you coming back!
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