8-24-10 Tuesday

Status: 8.0/10.  What’s a difference a day makes. Feeling good.

Events:  Got a good night’s sleep and made our usual way to Hopkins.  White cell counts and neutrophils keep climbing, and platelet and blood transfusions have increased my counts to much, much safer ranges.  No evidence of continued bleeding, blood pressure 130/70, pulse 70 – that’s more like it!  And they’ve given me the day off tomorrow – they’ll check my labs Thursday. I’ll continue on antibiotics for a week after my counts return to normal.  As my oncologist says, “Nothing like antibiotics and white cells.”

 Comments:  I couldn’t contend with all this without the world’s best patient advocate, chauffer, and nurse by my side.  Today was an ordinary day – Lisa packed up our usual day supplies (lunch, snacks, meds, etc.), drove me to Baltimore, started my thrice daily antibiotic infusion, stayed with me throughout the transfusions, arranged care for the kids, dropped me back home, made it live for World News, put a piece together for tomorrow’s Good Morning America, and back home now to spend the evening with the kids.  Got to find out when they accept nominations for Mom of the Year.

 Love,

-Bruce