August 3, 2023
Day + 104
Another series of adventures or, perhaps, misadventures... On Sunday morning, I started having double-vision. I've never had that before so it was pretty startling to wake up to. I went through the day thinking it might be related to my head cold, that it might get better as the day wore on or maybe dissipate after a . . .
July 27, 2023
Day + 97
The bronchoscopy at Kaiser went off without a hitch. Even though I was only mildly sedated, I don’t remember the procedure at all. I didn’t have any throat or nasal soreness afterwards, but I was very wiped out for the rest of the day. The preliminary results of my bronchoscopy did not show any fungal disease in my lungs. This is . . .
July 22, 2023
Day + 92
I haven’t posted for a while because I've been waiting to get the results of various recent tests (CAT-scan, X-ray, PET-scan, sputum test, and all the ongoing blood tests). I wanted to go over some of the results with my Kaiser oncologist as well as my Stanford oncologist. Dr. Green at Kaiser thought the latest results of the PET scan . . .
July 2, 2023
Day + 72
My pneumonia saga goes on, but my blood work continues to show positive results from CAR-T. Apologies for this more detailed medical account, but several of you have been asking how all this is going.
The results of the sputum samples showed that the “flora” in my lungs was normal and not pathological. A . . .
June 25, 2023
Day + 65
Happy Pride Day!
The accompanying photo is of San Francisco City Hall where Tim and I were married on March 9, 2004. On the day of our marriage appointment in San Francisco, we arrived at the Civic Plaza in San Francisco still somewhat ambivalent about whether or not we really needed to go through with this whole . . .
June 16, 2023
Day + 56
My roller coaster ride continues. Yesterday was a two medical campus day: Stanford in the morning, Kaiser Oakland in the afternoon. My latest labs showed improvement in some important markers including a considerable increase in my platelet count. The docs determined that I could stop taking two of the meds I've been . . .
June 8, 2023
Day + 48
In my previous posting, I said I'd let you know if anything was going on. Unfortunately, I've developed a bad cold over the past few days. It started out with a sore throat and fever, accompanied by ongoing coughing and a very runny nose. At first, the Kaiser and Stanford docs wanted to send me to the ED (which I used to call the ER), . . .
