The Bruins couldn't get it done last night despite the superb goaltending of Tim Thomas. One has to give the Leafs credit, they kept working hard the whole game. (It kills me to write that! But it's true.)
Alex's neutrophils are a bit higher today at 0.79. Yesterday they were .44. Being below 0.50 is key cut off level, below that one is "neutropenic" and extremely susceptible to infections. "Normal" is 1.5 to 7.4 so he still has away to go, but this is the first meaningful increase we have seen since being here and being above the 0.50 level is comforting. In theory, if this isn't a head fake, progress should become a little quicker now. His platelets have rebounded strongly, sometimes a good leading indicator.
Alex was in pretty good spirits yesterday afternoon and evening and is the same this morning.
Day by day.
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Special thanks go out to Grandma Paddy's nurse friend Judith who has now donated platelets twice and traveled considerable distances to do so. Platelets are always in scarce supply and this is a great thing to do.
Thank you Judith!
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