Friday, October 1, 2010

A Very Brief Recap

I know, I've been terrible. I will fill in the details later but here's a quick and dirty synopsis of last week.    As you will recall the previous Tuesday Alex's blood work showed that his blood counts were too low to have the treatments scheduled to begin a week ago Wednesday so they were deferred to start this Wednesday.  This apparently is not unusual.

(For the medically inclined, an ANC of at least 0.75 is desired, Alex's was 0.45)

Anyway, we were looking forward to a week off but it dint go as smoothly as hoped.  It's a tough journey. 

So here's the quick snapshot of the last ten days  and I will update more often and backfill some of this.

Wednesday:    Very Good
Thursday:         Very Good
Friday:              Fair, but fading
Saturday:         VERY UGLY
Sunday:            Ugly
Monday            Bouncing back eventually to fair
Tuesday           Good to Very Good
Wednesday     Very Good  (despite an 11 hour hospital day)
Thursday:         Pretty Ugly
Today:              Fair to Good so far