I am getting very good care here at the Fred Hutch cancer center hospital, a carve out floor dedicated to blood transplant patients. The only real problem is that the larger entity is the University of Washington hospital and with that their food service. The good part about their food service is I can order off a menu for each meal. Then comes the trying part which is the wait to have the food delivered. Average wait time is 1-hour although it is often longer so that when I complete one meal it seems as if I need to order the next one.

On the serious side, not too much activity today. Lots of IV fluid and medication. A few additional tests, blood and nasal swabs. My ENT consult has started me on a cortisone sinus wash and Afrin nasal for 3-days. I continue to have a pretty significant hearing loss, which is very frustrating.

I am continued on high flow oxygen at a 6-liter flow to keep my O2 Sat at about 94. I will definitely need to be on a lower oxygen flow before I can be discharged.

Tomorrow I will have a bronchoscopy, placing a camera down into my bronchial tubes, to take a look and obtain some material for cultures. Hopefully in a few days we can zero in on the infectious culpirite and receive the applicable antibiotic. Presently, the antibiotics I am receiving are broad spectrum, pretty much a shotgun approach until we know.

I am about to get through night #3 here. I have a sense there will be many more nights to come before I am discharged.

Hope you are staying cool, as from what I read the country is sweltering.

Larry and Sharon