Fungal Infection?

First of all I want to thank all of you who left the VERY nice comments on my last entry. When I saw that I had seven comments I for sure thought it was an error on the page. I've considered a couple of times discontinuing my blog, because I wasn't sure if people were actually reading it or interested, but when I see things like that it reassures me that I should keep writing :)

So today was my first day trying out the food from the children's menu...peanut butter & jelly for lunch and chicken nuggets w/tater tots for dinner...I felt like I was in elementary school again! Tomorrow it will be cheese pizza for lunch and spaghettios for dinner :P I swear I'm re-living my childhood!

Okay now to the more serious stuff...I had my CT scan done this morning and they actually found something. Both of my lungs have some spots, which they think could possibly be a fungal infection. I had a fungal infection in my lungs after my first transplant and had been on medication for it indefinitely, but my doctor had taken me off of it recently, because it's very hard on your liver. The infectious disease doctor's believe that when I broke out with shingles it compromised my immune system enough to make me susceptible to a fungal infection. We definitely know it hasn't been there very long, because the PET/CT that I had done about a month ago was clear in those areas. So now I'm on two anti-fungal medications via IV along with the antibiotics. I also had a blood test done today to see if they can determine whether the fungal infection could be aspergillis and I'm supposed to have two tests done where they'll take a sample of some stuff inside my lungs (similar to a broncoscopy). The earliest I'll get to go home is sometime early next week if all goes well. Basically they're going to monitor me, see how I react to the medication, and make sure that it indeed is a fungal infection before sending me home. I'm still not sure how this infection will affect my chemo regimen, I'm hoping that I won't have to wait for it to completely clear up before I can have chemo again. Fungal infections can be difficult to treat at times and can take months to complete clear up.

Oh a favor for all of you...next time you're at your local Starbuck's, can you check and see if they have a green tea latte on their menu as a "special?" I had one in a Starbuck's up in the city the weekend of the Nike marathon and have not been able to find another Starbuck's that has them yet. Apparently it's a new menu item that they're testing in certain locations before introducing it to all their stores. Of course I fell in love with it and now can't get it! If you happen to see it, please send me an email and/or comment...thank you!