Success!

Just returned from my afternoon session at Stanford. It is now official -- I am getting better and will be able to cut down on my visits to the outpatient clinic to three times a week!  I'll have to exercise more (walking), do breathing exercises to keep the lungs clear, eat, and drink about 60 ounces of fluid a day (can be water, Gatorade, soy milk, juices, etc.) in order to maintain this status but I'm up for the challenge. My numbers are holding steady and my body/mouth is slowly healing.

One back note - probably should have had this on one of the early entries.  I named the blog "Like a Rock" because when I was first treated at Kaiser on Morse people would ask how I feel and I'd say like a rock!  Then it became "I am a rock"...and then "I'm a rock - this thing can't beat me"....anyway, some people thought that was a little too premature and even a little too optimistic but I believed in it and it was fun.  So, sometime during this time I received a card from the sweetest of all people, Joannie, and lo and behold it was about the rock!  Joannie, still have the card and I still think I'm a Rock!