Day after Mark's 45 birthday.
We had a grand four days ...maybe five days here in Bangkok. Mark has been feeling better although he has napped many times during the day and night and does not have the energy to walk more than a block. I know he felt better even though he says when he feels good, he feels bad...I know it because he was not grouchy and he was playing jokes on me. He came into my office center I sat up in my bedroom and had me touch his hand which was very cold. He said his heart had stopped while he was sleeping. To my wide eyed reply of "REalLy?", he said: "No, my room airconditioner is really working and it is sooo cold and I had my hands outside the covers...It reminded me of one time years ago when he was a little kid about the 6th grade and he caught a mink and caged it. That animal had some teeth. He came to me one time with his fingers bent back so it looked like he was missing some of his fingers. He said the mink had ate them...I almost believed him as I saw that mink eat a frog in seconds and reduce it to chewing gum...bones and all.
Yesterday was Mark's birthday. We began it by watching southpark season 5 DVDs that I got him for his birthday. He rested most of the day and we never left the condo until late in the evening. We went to a restaurant called Neil's Restaurant and Bakery at 9:20. It is a block away on Asoke. We had Caviar and Oysters Rockefeller and salmon appetizers and then rock lobsters with salad and potato and corn...Mark wanted some dessert but the bakery had closed. This is an excellent restaurant...very fine decor and wait service. Mark was able to eat because he is as far out from chemo as he ever is...the further out he gets from chemo days, the better he can hold food down and the better he feels.
It was a great birthday then this am it was off to the hosptial for chemo...we were there from 10:45 until 6 pm. Mark is now not feeling well and has a fever. He gets chemo three days in a row....then our plans are to take a short trip if he isn't too sick from chemo. I will tell you about if we pull it off. The doctor is working with us to get Mark in shape and provide some medicines I can give IM if necessary. I think that his being able to plan a trip and having something to look forward to is what is keeping him going. Periodically he also tells me an interesting story from his experiences and we both enjoy it. I think that is my role at times to listen and encourage him to tell his story.
This next three days may be rough. Mark is very sick during chemotherapy and for a period of time after chemo he is very sick and can keep nothing down. I have Mark's friend Jin staying with him in the morning as I head for the Thai cooking school on the Chao Phraya River. I will be back in the hospital in the afternoon.
My best to all of you and more stories later....PS my diamond fell out of my ring...i thought it was lost down the drain...the cleaning girl found it and gave it to me...couldn't do the drain for three days cause of holiday..and the last day of holiday, she found it on the floor under something...My PDA plug- in is fried due to my stupidity and I have a new one that takes 220 or 110 but the addresses I had on it are gone. My watch battery stopped. ...all small potatoes compared to how Mark is doing...and all will wait for fixing until I get back to Austin. Hopefully my computer will hold up...I may have to get an abbacus