HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEEK, CHERYL!

LIVE S T R O N G Day

Samantha and Abby Live Strong!

Uncle Geoff was in town and living strong.  Managed to keep his hair too!

Some Richardsons, some Balfours and one Heseltine

 

WEAR YELLOW TOMORROW!

 For LIVESTRONG Day

http://www.livestrong.org/Take-Action/LIVESTRONG-Action/Livestrong-Day-2010/Event-Details?EventId=3360

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

A Week Off

It's Wednesday and normally that would mean we would be at the hospital.

Yesterday, we got Alex's bloodwork done at a local lab in anticipation of today's appointment.  His white blood cell counts are too low to have today's treatment and successive treatments over the following three days so everything has been pushed back a week.

This is a pretty normal occurrence at this stage and Alex is quite happy about having a full week off!  

He had a quiet birthday Friday and didn't feel great on Saturday and Sunday.  Monday was  better and yesterday was great, lots of talking and laughter.

Fantastic to have my mom and dad out here, too.

I have been a bad blogger again.  I'll try and do better!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALEX!

Things we are Looking Forward to

• No treatments until next Wednesday!

• It's Alex's birthday tomorrow, he will turn 13

• My parents are arriving later today (- this means sausage rolls! and other happy things)

and we always enjoy hearing from you.