Back in the hospital, 2nd to last treatment

I am back in the hospital, watching a lot of MSNBC which I don't get at home. Rachel Maddow especially! 

   I have my last lumbar puncture tomorrow, at least the last for this round of treatments. Who knows about the future! As usual the staff woke me up way too many times during the night and then the chemo gets air bubbles and beeps, waking me up and then I have to call for help. It really should beep the nurses' station but they don't have that technology, I guess. 

I don't have the pretty view I had last time. I have a view of the semi-circular driveway for admission and pick ups. I do see some of the campus which is nice.

The hospital has changed its visitor policy! They now allow up.to two visitors per day and they can be there at the same time!

I already had a visitor, Maria Isela, who I tutored when she was 7. She is 28 now and works next door at the dental school in Oral Medicine and came after work briefly. She didn't bring any food; that's a first for a visitor not to bring me food! But she promised me homemade tamales in the future. Her mother makes excellent tamales, she said. Today I ordered two turkey sausage patties and instead I got two scrambled eggs. Go figure! Save me from ordering hospital food!

Besides MSNBC, I'm reading, "Where the Crawdads Sing" which is good and a quick read. My next read will be "Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders. It's a challenge to keep myself occupied but I am walking the hallway "lap" listening to The Band's Stage Fright. They say 10.5 laps equals a mile. Then you can get a paper cut out of sneakers and put it on your door. One patient has about 30 of them. How long has he/she been here to get that many, I wonder?