Nice weekend with one minor hiccup

One minor hiccup this past Friday was learning that results from the tests from Monday (endoscopy) showing as suspected, that her cells are fighting the donor’s cells (GVHD). To help with the symptoms the doctor started her with a regimen of steroids. Beginning with a 50 mg daily dose and reducing 10 mg per month (5 months total).
Carol’s 100 days of treatment hit the middle mark this week. Another month and a half will be all the time she needs to stay in Tampa, continuing her treatment and taking her meds while being home in Sarasota.
Saturday was a fun day. Joe and Joyce visited us bringing along a bunch of delicious goodies to prepare lunch, so we spent a little time enjoying the visit and obviously the food.
Later on Saturday, our friends Joe and Donna Smith arrived with a great smile and tons of goodies and cooking tools which they used to prepare dinner at our apartment. Donna must have checked all kinds of known and unknown sources to bring only things Carol could eat, due to her stomach issues.
So the fun begins with Joe and Donna taking over our kitchen and preparing the most delicious dinner from scratch. They made delicious Tilapia, mashed potatoes, steamed carrots and string beans. They even brought some non alcoholic, all natura ginger beer (aside from wine) so Carol could have a drink too. We sat and ate dinner and talked about many subjects for hours. We enjoyed every single morsel of food and every second of their company. We look forward to our next encounter, but next time Carol and I will bring the goodies and do the prep.
Today Carol spent a little time skyping with Isabella. It’s her third birthday. “HAPPY BIRTHDAY BELLA”
She is 3 and already acting as if she were 10!
After he is done work today, Daniel will be coming to stay with Carol for a couple of days until Tuesday, when Cousins Frankie and Sandy take over for the next few days.
Michael (brother) & Sherry (sister-in-law and previous caregiver and in-house artist) will visit either Friday or Saturday when they are done their sailing trip!
We look forward to all our visitors and volunteer care-givers and continue being thankful to you all for communicating and helping keep Carol in good spirits!
Thank you.
Jaime