So yesterday was a comedy-of-errors. I was scheduled for an upper-body CT scan (chest, abdomen, pelvis) but the scanner failed to boot up and calibrate. Kaiser sent me home and rescheduled for next Friday (day after Thanksgiving) at 8 AM.
My bloodwork was the lowest it’s been in months. I was diagnosed with Cytomegalovirus (CMV) during my colonoscopy a few weeks ago, so they put me on heavy antibiotics and weekly blood tests to follow. Between the infection and the antibiotics, my numbers all fell so that I now run the risk of “walking pneumonia” if I spend time outdoors.
So yesterday I was asked to “refrain from walking the pups until [my] numbers improve.” So Victoria will be outdoors with Kiyomi and Toshirō while we wait for the Zarxio injections to do their job and help my blood product to recover. Until then, I’m also in considerable fatigue and bone pain from the dwindling numbers and stimulated bone marrow.