Relapsed High Risk Myeloma - Update August 25 2013

We had a huge rainstorm yesterday,  but we we really needed the moisture. Kemmer was frightened and so was I. So, we put Kemmer in her Thunder Shirt.  The Thunder Shirt really helps but not 100 percent.

Woke with left sided sinus headache and a headache over the bridge of my nose. 

Jani is weed eating the lawn and I'm still on the sofa. My leg pain is killing me and I'm just taking the same amount of pain med at the same time each day.

My gait is OFF and I'm having a hard time with my gait and balance.

Our friends Patti and Ali departed around noon for their return journey to Greality.  Sure was nice of them to come and we had some fun too!!!

Relapsed High Risk Myeloma - Update August 24 2013

Really had a good day. We got the 4-wheelers and coolers ready or a trip up the Mine HIll at 12:02 PM . We made a bee-line for the Shay Trestle returning down the MIne Hill at 2:30 PM. It had just started to rain lightly. 

Ali and Patti rode together, while Jani rode with Zoe and I rode with Kemmer. 

I almost killed Kemmer and myself near the double tramway...I was watching 2 hunting dogs with their owners when I veered off into the right sided-barrow pit. It was a big jump and almost knocked both Kemmer and I off the 4-wheeler. I'm not proud of the maneuver. 

We continued on to the Shay Trestle road and stopped for a photo op. 

I slept in and and I felt fine. I haven't had a nose bleed and all is well.

Continue to check my blood glucose 4 times a day and bedtime. My blood sugar has been running 223, 274, 272, 231, etc. My nova insulin needs are running between 2-4 units. It is difficult being a diabetic and I'm testing all the time.

Relapsed High Risk Myeloma - Update July 21 2013

We decided to take Robbyn on a picnic to Park Creek at the summit of Trail Ceek. Jani packed up the lunches and off we went with the dogs around 10 AM. I was feeling well enough to do the driving in Jonah (1999 Honda Passport). Park Creek is located at about 7,700 feet in elevation.

Kemmer and Judy Malkiewicz at Park Creek Campground, just below the Trail Creek Road.

Even though our 3 dogs are crowded with a third person in the back - THEY LOVE TO GO! Here is me in the driver's seat, Kemmer, Kady, and Zoe.

Our other goal was to locate a picnic table that our family used back in 1965 (48 years ago) for a picnic.  Pictured below are Auntie Ann (Anna Wold Lundberg, wife of our M's youngest brother, yet older, Edward Auer Lundberg (best known as Auer); our M's, Marjorie Christine Lundberg Malkiewicz (10 years younger than Auer); Rex Henning Lundberg, oldest brother (12 years older than Marjorie and Marjorie was born on Rex's birthday in 1924). And finally, our Gram, Hazel Theora Jensen Anderson Lundberg (age 76 years in this photo). All the women had dresses on!

Jani and Robbyn walked around Park Creek and finally settled on this picnic table. I waited in Jonah while they searched out the tables - it was very pleasant, especially since I had several bug deterrent sprays for horse flies, biting flies and yellow jackets.

Here is our re-creation today...none of us had dresses on today !

Robbyn Wacker with Kemmer and Zoe at Park Creek, Trail Creek Summit, 21 July 2013

We stopped to let the dogs swim in the creek and THEY LOVED IT. Zoe loves the water a lot more than Kemmer - but, Kemmer will, at least, try now.

 Kady-from-Kansas (age 12 1/2) loved cooling off in the water.

 The water behind Kemmer and Zoe with the stick is deep and over their heads.

I drove us home via Bartlet Point Road and the Old Chilly Road and we saw this loose loaf hay - very pretty. Everyone is haying in the Big Lost River Valley now.

We arrived home just after 3 PM, hot and tired. I had slight nose bleed ... more serous (watery bloody liquid) than blood itself. I could not get it to stop and I probably did too much today, getting over heated!

Ron, the wood cutter came by, covered with wood chips from a day of wood cutting up the Mine Hill. We had a good visit.

We went to dinner next door at Gale and Pam Lord's house. They had Gale's brother, Gary and his wife Diane too - so, it was a good time...yet my left nare continued to ooze serous blood. Hope I can get it to stop. I go tomorrow for a CBC at Lost Rivers Medical Center in Arco.

Updates April 27-28 2013

Feeling pretty well. Decided to go watch Johnson's branding for awhile Saturday morning 27 Apr 2013. The calves looked so little. I didn't stay long because of the dust in the air.

Came home and slept most of the afternoon.

Today, 28 Apr 2013, I had a lot more energy, showered, did 2 loads of laundry, and worked several hours on scanning genealogy files. 

Have a bit of a sinus headache and took 1/2 of pain pill. My bone marrow biopsy site of 26 Apr 2013 continues to be sore. The radiating pain I had down my left leg comes and goes, but I think it is getting better. Harder waiting for the results.

Cora made me some potato salad and Earl delivered it -  yum! Had a nice visit from Vickie Mae.

Then, I walked Kemmer slowly for quite a ways on the BLM Road South on the Mine HIll.

 At least I was out in the sunlight for almost 40 minutes, which is good for Vitamin D.

 Found a penny that my M sent, I'm sure.

Did the grocery shopping at Ivies and bought dill pickles for the leg cramps. Visited my father for awhile. Came home to work on the computer some more. Had a slight bloody nose, so my platelets must still be way too low.