It was really a not-so-much great day, health-wise.  The weather has just been so weird.  It was both cold AND hot here in Rockford. Usually, I end up getting some kind of cold or fluey thing when that happens.  But, now with all these immuno-suppressants, I’m particularly vulnerable.  I’ve been coming down with a sore throat and I think even an ear infection.  I called Northwestern because I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do, either go see my primary care physician, (since, I’m sure NW doesn’t want him prescribing any more medicines that might have weird interactions with the 18,000 other pills I’m on.)  My new nurse practitioner, Susan something or other, said she’d get back to me, but, I never heard back.

I had to go to the hospital in town here today in order to get some blood work done for Northwestern.  I wasn’t supposed to take any pills beforehand so that they could check my “tac” levels (“tac” is short for the name of the medicine that costs me/Medicaid only $976 per month!)  Next Thursday, I’m scheduled to go back into Chicago to Northwestern hospital for another routine biopsy.