COUNTS ARE DOWN AGAIN

We had quite a surprise at Dave's Monday check up.  His counts were down again.  Last Monday his white blood cell (WBC) count was 2.2 and his granulocytes (GRA) were 0.8.  He was told to skip his Monday shot, and he was retested on Tuesday.  On Tuesday, his WBC was 2.3 and his GRA was 0.9. Those numbers were going in the right direction overnight.  He was to skip his Wednesday shot and reduce his dose on Friday by 25%.  Monday's results: WBC = 2.2 and GRA = 0.8.  So even with a week off of his shots, and a reduced dosage on Friday, the results were just as bad as they were before he was skipping shots and reducing the dosage.

This time he was told to skip the Monday and Wednesday shots (again) and reduce the Friday shot by another 25% (for a 50% reduction from the original dose).  We shall see how that works for him.

In the meantime … we did get the tree in the house and in the tree stand.  This year, I did the lights while Dave watched.  Notice, I did not say he 'supervised.'  It was the first time in 25 years I put the lights on the tree.  The next day I did the ornaments and the rest of the house decorating.  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Dave, as usual, is not feeling sick, but he is very tired and weak.  We've decided he needs to take serious naps in the afternoon.  He has been lying down, but has the television on and therefore does not get good sleep.  Yesterday we had a party to attend in the evening, so he did lie down in our quiet dark bedroom and he slept soundly.  That was better.  This afternoon, I was guilty of getting him out to approve of some Christmas gifts I was contemplating.  No nap.  Oh well, we'll do better tomorrow.

Dave's sister Candace has arrived and is visiting with her twin Sandy.  We haven't yet seen her, but she'll be here later this evening and she'll be staying with us until Saturday.  We love to have our family visit!

Dave contemplating my decorating.  Hmmmmmm