Short and sweet

After a painfully long bone marrow transplant clinic visit last week, we were blessed to have a mercifully short visit today.  Short visits really improve our mood, even if we were to get bad news.  But such was not the case with this visit--it was all good news!

Eric's weight continues to climb, his complexion continues to even out, and his blood work continues to improve.  Neutrophils, white blood cells and platelets are up.  Red blood cells are about the same. They would have given Eric a blood transfusion today if we had pressed for one, but since that would have added four hours to our short and sweet visit, we declined.  Since Eric continues to go for long walks every morning even though he is severely anemic, we all agreed that it was better to take a "wait and see" approach on any more transfusions unless his numbers drop significantly.

I am sorry for you, dear reader, that the last few blogs have been boring.  But for myself, I love being able to check off another week on the road to recovery without any excitement or drama.  Hooray for boring!