home again...

another round of chemo behind us...as far as chemo's go this one was pretty uneventful. in thursday afternoom and out saturday night. nice.

the chemo knocks tim down a peg or two but overall it was not too bad while he was in. the worst is yet to come, but at least he is home. he goes back in on monday afternoon for transfusion support and his neulasta shot.

pray that he can stay out of trouble while his counts begin to drop. if he follows the same pattern as before his white blood cell counts (WBC), red blood cell counts (RBC) and platelets will all take a dive. as you all probably know by now the low WBC increase his risk for infection and the low RBC will increase his risk of needing blood transfusions and the low PLAT counts will increase his risk of bleeding and needing platelet transfusions.

it is a bizarre cycle.

we fix him and then we break him
we fix him and then we break him

very bizarre cycle.

we are still uncertain if this is the last chemo or just the 2nd chemo...they have yet to make that decision. when we know we will let you know.

thanks for checking in.

tim and tammy