MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas!  I hope your holidays have been wonderful, and New Year's is yet to come. We spent Christmas day with Molly and her family, and Dave's sister Sandy joined us for dinner.  Tomorrow we'll head for the Atlanta area where we will see my brother Steve, Dave's son Dale and their families, and we'll stay with my sister Libbie.  Mom is already there with her.  We have many friends and cousins in the Atlanta area, and we are hereby making a resolution to get there more often, specifically to spend time with them.  On this trip we have family holiday visits and a wedding reception to attend, and will have to be home on the 30th so Dave can get his blood tested on the 31st.

He had blood work done today, and his counts went up a tiny bit.  I guess Dr. S. knows what he's doing (ya think?).  My current theory is that it's better to have a steady (3 times a week) injection of his medicine than to have a once a week injection.  Maybe the spikes in medicine was causing the ups and downs of his counts.  He will continue on the 3 injections/week schedule, still at the 50% dosage, get his blood tested again on Tuesday, and hopefully it will continue to improve.

Dave had some severe abdominal pain today, but it seems to have resolved.  We called our local family doctor (that would be the inimitable Dr. Chad) who talked us down from an almost panic state.  All's well that ends well.

For those of you who want details, Dave's WBC went from 2.6 to 2.8, and the GRA from 0.8 to 1.5.  We are happy with the improvement, though Dave is trying to reach 4.1 and 2.0, respectively.

I'll be posting again after Dave gets his counts on 12/31/13.  Then it's on to a New Year! Hooray.