Entering the Honey Badger's Burrow

So, there's a certain protocol to entering "The Burrow" AKA Dad's room in The Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Jefferson Hospital.  Zacc will be your guide.

Here we are at the door.  You hit the button and then wait for 15 seconds for the yellow light to turn off and the doors to open.  How about Zacc's classy lap top bag?

With your 15 seconds over (which always feel longer than 15 seconds), we're ready to enter the air lock room.

OK, the first door closed behind us and now we've got another 15 seconds to burn until the yellow lights turn off.  Zacc read a book to pass the time.

OK, with War and Peace put back in his stylish bag, Zacc is ready to open the second door out of the air lock room.

Zacc's leather man purse has served him well but now it's time to put it in the locker so it doesn't make its way to the black market (leather satchels are believed to be aphrodisiacs in the Far East).

Here we are at the wash station.  You have to soap and water it for at least 15 seconds.  Microbes and bacteria are known quitters on the 16th second.  Everyone gets their own soap packet with brush and pre-loaded soap.  Insider's tip: Open this package before you get your hands wet.

Now we're ready to enter the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit.  We looked like trustworthy guys so the nurses let us in on the top secret door code.  That or they wanted to keep working instead of playing doorman for us.  I still think we looked trustworthy.

And here we are at the Honey Badger's door.  Before entering, you have to don a clean gown, gloves, and mask that Zacc makes look so good.  When we leave The Burrow, the gown goes into the laundry, gloves come off for another washing inside Dad's room, and the mask comes off after leaving.

As you know, the accumulated effects of the various cobra poisons (chemo and radiation) are taking their toll.  We're happy to say it doesn't look like our stem cells will cause host vs. graft disease.  Please keep Dad in your thoughts.