Settling in

Well, pretty much settled in with a couple of days down.  Some pics from hospital room for interest: top pic is Lifecycle (smuggled in from home) in foreground; teeny weeny Space Needle in background; middle is north view with Arnold Bldg left and Nordstrom Tower right and peekaboo view to Lake Union; bottom photo looking west with 2 Union Square to right (white top with flagpole) and a hint of Puget Sound.

Swedish Hospital has a terrific Oncology Unit.  Seattle Cancer Care Alliance including the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center gets a lot of press and is the place to go for complicated stem cell transplants.  Trust me on this: in medicine you want to avoid anything that has the word complicated in it.  At the risk of stating the obvious, these are riskier and less proven situations that are best if applied to someone else.  Don't get me wrong, if I had something termed complicated, the 'Hutch' as it is affectionately known is 'the place to be'.  Having said that, Swedish has really got their act together, and as someone with healthcare experience I am dutifully impressed by the facility, staff, organization, teamwork, etc.etc.

Anyway enough yakking-enjoy your collective lives and please don't get something complicated, OK?  The Hutch doesn't need the business, I assure you.

Thanks as always for your outpouring of support, caring, and prayers.

Thought of the day from dear friend DT: 'When failure is not an option, it is amazing how much more directed and focussed you become, and how success is a more achievable goal'