Still Waiting Again

  
I consider myself a patient patient, but this takes the knish. Speaking of knishes...I forget how great they are! With mustard. Yet, another advantage of being in New York. And yet another thing for me to eat while I'm waiting.

I'm waiting for my neutrophils to come back again as my blood flucuates. A CBC (Complete Blood Count) is a snapshot of a moving target, but it's what doctors have to go on. So, today it looks good. They gave me the shot of Neupogen yesterday to boost my neutraphils and it worked. Plus my Leukemic blast counts also went down to 3%.  That's very good too. Tomorrow I meet with Dr. Giralt and then Marty.  Maybe they will have more information on the donor, the donor agency, any dates, etc.

Every few months the song "Crosseyed and Painless" by the Talking Heads comes back into my head and just gets stuck there. It's the one with the refrain that goes, "Still Waiting..."  Talking Heads were one of my favorite things about the 80's.  Luckily it's a great song, and not something like,  "It's a Small World After All". That song really gets stuck in your head!  I'm sorry for evening mentioning it!

Lost my shape/Trying to act casual/Can't stop
I might end up in the hospital/Changing my shape
I feel like an accident
They're back/To explain their experience

Isn't it weird?/Looks too obscure to me
Wasting away
That was their policy

I'm ready to leave
I push the fact in front of me
Facts lost/Yeah, facts are never what they seem to be
Nothing there/No information left of any kind
Lifting my head/Looking for the danger signs

There was a line/There was a formula
Sharp as a knife/Facts cut a hole in us
There was a line/There was a formula
Sharp as a knife/Facts cut a hole in us

I'm still waiting, I'm still waiting

The feeling returns/Whenever we close our eyes
Lifting my head/Looking around inside

The island of doubt/It's like the taste of medicine
Working by hindsight/Got the message from the oxygen
Making a list/Find the cost of opportunity
Doing it right/Facts are useful in emergencies

The feeling returns/Whenever we close our eyes
Lifting my head/Looking around inside

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things

I'm still waiting, I'm still waiting

--- David Byrne