MId-April review

The pollen around here is impressive.  Golden dust covers everything, including our lungs.  Still, David feels better every day and is able to get out and do whatever he wants.  He saw the dermatologist this week and the surgeries removing the cancers from his head healed nicely.  She froze a spot on his face where the actinokeritinoses slowly come back over the last 20 years.  She froze a spot on his ear and then froze a wart on his finger.  The wart developed a huge blister under it.  Apparently that is a good result and he was instructed to take a sterile needle and puncture it.  He did and it is now covered with a band-aid.  On Monday he starts applying the wart removal medicine.  It's always something but these are minor bumps that are easy for both of us to handle.

I saw my endocrinologist last week and my thyroid levels are good so I just continue with the medication level for the Graves/Hashimoto combo.  The semester is winding down towards graduation and I'm looking forward to going to TX for Grace's First Communion on April 30.  David will be on his own because Than has a conference in Williamsburg that weekend.  I'm sure he will be fine and we will FaceTime several times.

Slow improvement

Today David got up early, went to his usual meeting with Fred and Ron.  He said he walked a little and then went to Harry and Cathy's Dumfree's Diner for political discourse.  The temple was closed so he came home and took a nap for a couple of hours.  Next we got into the car and drove to Reston. He walked about three blocks from the parking garage to the Apple Store and was exhausted.  We walked about a block to Chicos where he rested while I tried on stuff.  He could not walk the couple of blocks to the car and I got it and picked him up.
He coughed a lot on the way home and cleared out his throat.  This allowed him to speak more clearly.  He is hearing me in the car without my using a microphone.  He is still very cold and uses the parabolic heater while sitting on the couch and watching TV.  He is staying warm and resting when he needs to.  Nose bleeds continue to plague him.  He seems to run out of steam but I think that he is slowly improving.