The Neutrophils came back up to 1300 today, which takes Michael out of isolation. His Lymphocytes are slowly creeping back as well. Michael still has to be careful, but we were able to go to Applebee's tonight. Since we are in Minnesota every TV at Applebee's had the game with the Twins and Yankees, but when we left it didn't look good for the Twins.
Michael will get labwork again on Monday and Thursday. As far as we know, he will get his next round of chemo starting next Thursday if his labs continue to improve. Michael has been doing light work outs, T'ai Chi (a technique of exercise and meditation), hours on his keyboarding and computer and he's been working on a project (more on that later).
One of my goals was to give Michael a lot of time to himself, but I have found that has not been a problem as the routine for shopping, cleaning and meal preparation is quite time consuming here. I am always thinking I will get more accomplished the next day, and one of these days it is bound to happen.
One of the hard things about living here is there are no TVs in the rooms--only about 5 for the whole house of about 100 people--ouch. But if we are lucky we can find one at 10:00, like we were able to tonight and watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, a good way to relax at the end of a long day.
Hopefully, nothing new here until Monday. Hoping all of you have a good weekend.
Thank you so much for your concern and for all of your prayers.
I'm thankful for the good lab report. Sounds like the both of you are keeping busy.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine the big house you are in...was it a dormitory at one time? So many rooms!
Erin, Andy, Grandma Jan, kids, and myself are doing the Walk for the Cure this Sunday in Phoenix. Andy's mother, Jan, is a breast cancer survivor. A couple of Erin's workers at her office are walking, too. I think the weather should be good. I'll be thinking of Melissa doing a 3 day walk if I get tired after my 5K walk!
Thinking about all of you...God bless!
Arizona Cousin Donna