Triple Therapy Treatment for Hep C post transplant: Monday, Day 3! Wooohooooo!

Well we made it through day three, almost. 4 more hours until the dose of the day. I did come up with some good ideas about some fat/fiber meals today. Gary has had a busy day, as we went to the hospital for his first round of labs, including a VL. Tomorrow we have a 1:10 appointment with Dr. Habib and NP Carol Peters. They will have the lab results then and I am curious to know how Gary is doing. He seems very tired, but he still has his humor and is being kind. This is nice.

Xander

He got to talk to Xander this morning, our grandson. Xander called my cell phone and Gary answered it. "GRANDPA!!" was how he was greeted. Big smiles and some good conversation and lots of love. Then Gary spoke with Donovan, my son, Xander's dad. They had a nice conversation as well. Gary also spoke with his mom this morning. I spoke with his sister Sue, she has called us every day since we left Vermont (August 2011) she is an amazing support, sister and best friend!! XXOOXX We spent some time with Elaina, my daughter, she came by for a visit and to take me for a quick shopping trip. I spoke with Kelly this afternoon, Gary's daughter, she was doing well and missing her dad!! She spent the weekend with family in Vermont. I talked to my mom today as well. Everyone is so supportive and full of love . . . (ah love!)

Grand daughter Alexis, Kelly's daughter

I thought maybe Gary would be into a bike ride tonight, but not yet . . . maybe we will give a shot for tomorrow morning. He wants to go, but just does not feel well enough yet for that. It is also very hot out, and the heat and sun is not a good mix with his treatment drug Telaprivir. So if we can get out there in the early morning, it may work out for tomorrow.

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Meals went well today too. Two new things we are going to try are whole wheat pasta and cheese (swiss and cheddar) and whole wheat french toast. A large egg has 5 g of fat and the recipe I use for french toast takes 2 eggs and I use whole milk, but I could use some whole milk and some heavy cream with all spice . . . yum!!!! And real Vermont maple syrup, what could be better??? I am also putting together some home made trail mix with dark chocolate chips, almonds, cashews, dried cherries and raisins. I am going to offer that tonight for the midnight dose. This is actually kinda fun. I think I could easily put together a cook book for this treatment. I am trying a lot of different recipes. Might as well make the best of it. Oh yeah, my mom is sending me a bran muffin recipe that came from my grandmother. I do remember this muffin from my childhood. I am going to add up the ingredients and with a little doctoring, I bet I could make it fit the 20 g fat and our goal of 5-6 fiber per muffin! We shall see . . .lol

Well I guess that is about it for today. I have uploaded a bunch of pictures that I will post tomorrow if I have time. I will post a couple of my favorites below as a farewell to day 3!