Record Snow at Mayo Clinic

Thursday, May 2, 2013: We Minnesotans thought we were done with snow for the season. Highway departments had even removed the plows from their big trucks, converting them for summer use. After all, Rochester, Minnesota's previous all-time record snowfall for the entire month of May was two inches. Last night and today, though, Rochester and Mayo Clinic got a foot. We saw the forecasts and drove from our home to Rochester yesterday afternoon before the storm, staying at a hotel. Today we did our medical business entirely indoors, using the clinic's warm, dry honeycomb of tunnels, returning home this afternoon when the storm was over. No problems - the roads were pretty good once we got away from Rochester. We did have to get the car out of the snow Cycles 66 and 67: I never got around to posting last month's results on the Pomalyst study, so today's report is a double. Cycles 66 and 67 are complete, each 28 days long, for a total of five years and almost two months. I take 2 mg of Pomalyst every night, the good stuff that is keeping my myeloma at bay. In addition I take one 325-mg aspirin every day to ward off blood clots, and a 400-mg tablet of acyclovir to keep shingles away. Today's results are good - IgG is down about 14% from last month, M-spike is unchanged, and no other blood results are a cause for alarm. Ho-hum. I love ho-hum. Support Groups are Good (I learned how to take Pomalyst): When I started on Pomalyst five years ago I was under the impress...
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