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We anticipated a short day today. Usually it is blood draw, results review, and then home. But today here numbers are still down. Platelets today are at 5 and the normal zone is 140-440. So instead of home by noon, we are expecting to be here until about 6pm. Steroids give you energy! Sunday throughContinue reading “Its Thursday, must need a transfusion”

There are seasons of time you want to put behind you. I am glad to say we have put this last month behind us with this last chemo dose on Sunday. Another bonus is they have put us on once-a-week blood work for now. Michele has been feeling a little better the last two days.Continue reading “Cycle 5 chemo complete”

It is 8:15pm local time. We just got back home. After a bag of platelets and another bag of blood, Michele is feeling a little more clarity this evening. And tomorrow she will return for 12:30pm to do another chemo dose to complete the chemo portion of the cycle. Good night everyone. We are bothContinue reading “Home for the night”

But… before this today… Yesterday was a decent day. We had some work being done at the house in the morning and we were having a slow but steady day. It was a great day as well. Sun was shining and I managed to even get a little sun over lunch time. I could tellContinue reading “It’s Saturday, must need a transfusion.”

We got home on Tuesday afternoon. Happy to be home. Almost done with the chemo for Cycle 5 Michele checked in to the hospital on Thursday night. They started the first Chemo Treatment late that night. It gets confusing on tracking this information. Day 1 started at 11:00 on Thursday night. I almost must trickContinue reading “Home Again”

This past week, we joined a zoom with 8 other Leukemia Patients in an MD Anderson support group. It was enlightening and scary at the same time. The common theme with everyone was the disruption to life. All are current patients, and some were zoomed in from their hospital room or waiting room. It isContinue reading “Preparing for Cycle 5”

Early in the blog we were getting caught up on Yellowstone episodes. We recently finished the prequel, 1883. Generational stories. Taylor Sheridan, the writer, has a gift of the story line. I encourage everyone to watch the 1883 series. It is a time in americas history where we may find hard to understand the trials.Continue reading “In a month of bad days. Celebrate the good ones.”

Our bad… It turns out that this last round of outpatient Chemo was a part 2 of Cycle 4. It is either called 4B or 4N but we are not too sure still. It was a round of clinical trial medications we do know that. The week and weekend. Outpatient Treatments were a bit ofContinue reading “Did we say the last one was Cycle 5?”

It was a welcome surprise to hear that we will be doing outpatient for this cycle. No hospital stay! A big change in the treatment protocol for us. Pain but not chemo or cancer related She has been having pain in her hip and right leg this week. We thought it may be related toContinue reading “Cycle 5 outpatient starts today”

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone out there from Michele and I. We hope everyone treasures this day in protecting your heart and relationships. We are MD Anderson in between appointments. We are done with our lab work today and waiting for a dressing change for her PICC line. The 24th floor of the hospital isContinue reading “Happy Valentine’s Day!”