Da Brewery?

MC here,

Phil is resting today after getting "a Workup" for a little raise in his temperature yesterday accompanied by chills. It's hard to tell the difference between a freezing cold room and other kinds of chills. You have to understand it's "over-tropical" here which has the effect of keeping the outside windows covered with heavy steam you can't see through. Along with that it's rather HOT! So America's answer to that is to cool off every building people inhabit until they have to wear long pants and sleeves. People here actually seem to dress for the inside environment. I saw them wearing sweatshirts yesterday during my walk after which had me ringing out my tee shirt when I got back to the house. It's like working out in the steam room at the club. So here I sit with long pants on and a long sleeved tee with Phil wearing his sweatshirt so when he needed an extra blanket yesterday I retrieved one from the warmer and put it close to his body, covered him up and he soon started snoring. I knew things where a little wrong when his body started shaking while snoring. So they did all the usual fever workup including blood cultures, xrays, antibiotics, etc and found his temperature had subsided (it had been 101.3F)after awhile. He felt better and was a bit warmer. The docs today said one of the culture bottles showed a yeast growing. So more tests will show where it might be coming from. For those non-medical people he now has only 7 instead of about 3000 cells that fight infections (per milliliter of blood) and about half the normal amount of red cells that carry oxygen to all the cells in the body and his platelets are about 1/5th of normal. Platelets help your blood clot when you bleed. Got it? These will continue to drop another 4-6 days. Then we wait until his cells start to come up in 10-14 days. That's the short version.

Phil is eating about 1 1/2 meals/day, still getting "food in a tube". He labels them after different ice creams BUT is starting to think of other things he could maybe order in like a meatball sub or a mild Thai dish. This is going to be a new fun game I can tell.

He gets to try a different drug today for anti-yeast. Says he likes "trying new things everyday". Ha ha. So a rest day for Lance and Phil although he's already pedaled in his room to move the accumulated bit of fluids in his legs he thinks is there from not moving. Why else? Rest on.