4/11/22

It's Monday.  I went to the oncologist today.  She's putting me back on drugs.  Poop.  I shouldn't complain.  I figured this was coming.  She was waiting until my body bounced back from the last round before starting again.  We're going to begin with one drug at a time.  I can't even remember the name of the new one.  She ordered it, so I'll update ya'll later.  She talked to me for quite awhile today.  We talked about choices that only I can make, but that's for later.  I got some of my labs back, but not all.  My white and red counts are still below normal, but I've come back quite a ways.  Lots of stuff was flagged, but she said it wasn't important, so I'm moving on.  I have to see a pulmonologist next.  My lungs just aren't quite up to snuff, it appears.  MRI's and infusion in July, otherwise, I don't see her again until June - unless I have an issue, of course.  So, I'm almost free to roam the country again!  We'll just have to wait and see if the new drug makes me sick...

While we were docked at the state park in Florida, a small boat got close to shore and the occupants exited their vessel and ran into the mangroves.  The authorities were alerted and they arrived post haste.  Lots of vehicles with sirens and lights flashing filled the parking lot.  They captured a group of Cubans that included one child.  They hauled the boat over to the next cove and we never saw them again.  

While we were anchored at one uninhabited island, David and I snorkeled to the shore, stopping along the way to see stuff in the water.  When we finally got to shore, we wandered down the beach a long ways.  When we finally looked back at the boat, we saw it was a very long way away from us.  We had come further than we thought....  If we waved our arms, they would come get us in the dingy because that was a preplanned option.  They were watching us to make sure we were ok the whole time.  We decided to swim for the boat.  Straight shot, no detours for sightseeing.  Hoo-boy!  That turned out to be the swim of my life.  It was a very long way and by the time we made it back, I could barely haul myself up the steps into the boat.  I was totally spent.  I was worthless for a couple of hours after that, but bounced back later.  I can't believe I made it that far.  What a swim!

The last full day on the water, we anchored between a deserted sailboat and a shipwreck.  I asked how we would fair if the wind shifted, because it appeared our anchor line was so long that we would hit the sailboat.  They said the sailboat would turn also, so we wouldn't have to worry.  I asked about the shipwreck, because some of it was above the water line, but they said the wind wouldn't come from that direction.  They were wrong.  In the middle of the night, a storm hit, the wind shifted, and I thought I heard thunder.  Nope.  It was our hull scraping the metal hull of the shipwreck.  I'm glad I didn't know that until it was all over the next morning.  Apparently, they were both very busy that night trying to get our catamaran off the hull of the shipwreck.

I have a shark story about that shipwreck that I'll share tomorrow.  


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