All Entries in the "Blogs" Category
How Young is Too Young: Underage Drinking
Sophomore reflects on underage drinking among her peers
It’s Not Always Sunny in Lancer Village
“The sun always shines on Lancer Day.” False. The last two Lancer Day’s have been gloomy and rainy. Waking up this morning, I was disappointed to see that the usual sunlight was not shining into my window. The rain and the clouds always seems to put a damper on lancer day. That is, until everyone [...]
Agree to Disagree, a Mosque at “Ground Zero” is Innapropriate
It’s September 11, 2001 and I’m sick, lying in bed at home. I make my way downstairs to the kitchen to get some 7UP and turn on the TV. The news was on and I’m about to flip the channel until I hear the anchor say “We can now confirm that one of the World [...]
Post Transplant (Week 11)
*(Day +70), Tuesday, (July 20th) was a pretty uneventful day. I had to go to the BMT clinic in the morning to get platelets. While I was in clinic I finally met another patient who is around my age. We had been talking on facebook but she didn’t get out of the hospital until now. I’m [...]
Post Transplant (Week 10)
(Day +62), Monday, (July 12th) has been another great day. I had an appointment at clinic this morning at 10 a.m. just to get some labs drawn and meet with Dina, a nurse practitioner. Afterwards we came back to the house and ate lunch outside because the weather was so beautiful. I spent the afternoon napping [...]
Post Transplant (Week 9)
*(Day +55), Monday, (July 5th) was not a very good day. Turns out I have meningitis and pneumonia. They’ve put me on antibiotics to fight it but I’m nervous about both. I haven’t had any more fevers so I’m hoping that means the antibiotics are working. I’ve also started gaining water weight again. When I left [...]
Post Transplant (Week 7)
*(Day +41), Monday, (June 21st) and (Day +42), Tuesday, (June 22nd) are both a blur. Couldn’t really tell you what happened because I was knocked out on pain meds. I pretty much only woke up to go to the bathroom, eat and take pills. I don’t even remember what I ate or who my nurses were. I know I got [...]
Post Transplant (Week 6)
*(Day +34), Monday, (June 14th), was another good day. It’s been raining all week so my mood has been a little drowsier and sleepier. I just haven’t been as active or online. Hence the reason for the late blogging. Good news, My white blood cell count hit .9. My cells are continuing to engraft. My [...]
Post Transplant (Week 5)
*(Day +27), Monday, (June 7th), has been a great and mundane day. I fell asleep around 2 last night but slept surprisingly well during the night. They didn’t give me any medicine to pee during the night and had my fluids running at a lower rate so I only had to get up like twice [...]
Post Transplant (Week 4)
*(Day +20), Monday, (May 31st), is a great day! I was woken up this morning around 6 a.m. by my nurse who told me that my counts had just come back and my white blood cell count had finally jumped from .1 to .2! This is good news because it means that one of the [...]
Post-Transplant (Week 3)
*(Day +13), Monday, (May 24th), was a nice day. I woke up around 8 and ate some pop tarts and watched some TV. I got my usual morning platelet transfusion around noon and then tried to nap a little bit but couldn’t really get comfortable. My legs started to swell again because of the meds [...]
Royals Update
Just two weeks into the Major League Baseball season, and already it has been easy to see what the Royals haven’t improved upon since last year. In fact, how they’re doing now contradicts how they were doing in May of last year but in light of the new season, here are some observations thus far… [...]
