Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Hi everyone, happy Sunday night. I hope you all had a great weekend. Evey and I had a pretty relaxing weekend, visiting with friends and family and watching movies. Just another fun filled weekend here at the hospital. If you can sense the sarcasm in the sentence, you're pretty much right on. Starting to get really antsy in this place. Just gotta remember this is out of my hands and being here is part of the deal. I can usually snap myself out of those moments pretty quickly, but those periods of time seem to be taking longer. Other than the cabin fever, I am feeling really good and healthy so I don't have a whole lot to complain about in the grand scheme of things.

White blood cell counts are still "in the basement", as my doctor would say, but my platelet count is steadily rising which continues to be encouraging. They almost doubled overnight so if I can get that kind of action going on the white cell side of things, I'll be looking good. Tomorrow we will know if there has been any movement, but bottom line is they are still way too low to do anything.

Got some good news today. As far as testing my bone marrow goes, there may be a chance that I could go through another extraction this week. If my white cell count is still rock bottom by the end of the week, they may just go ahead and test for results on round two of the chemo treatment I finished up a few weeks ago. On the other hand, if my white cells show movement and start to go up this week, then they will wait until they start to mature, and then test. Regardless, a test is right around the corner. The best part of this story is they may send me home for five days or so to help me with the cabin fever, whether or not I hit remission from round 2. This will give me some time to get some fresh air, see the light of day, spend time with Floyd and sleep in my own bed. As great as that was to hear, I need to keep from getting too excited because things change around here on a dime. Getting home for a few days would really be great but the prize as of now is to get into remission. That is what I continue to focus on and strive for. We shall see.

That's it for today. Sorry for the long blog but as you can see we have a lot to be excited about. Fingers are crossed that white counts are up tomorrow. If not, we'll just push for the next day. Thanks for reading and I'll update you as things progress.