"Just the Facts"-- Consistently gaining a few pounds, blood levels still bouncing but at high levels, rash seems to have an ebb and flow rhythm. Feet 99.9% peeled!
We seems to be having a fairly smooth week. Maybe a slight incline of improvement. It is a slow going road and you would think we would be tired and impatient, well maybe we are a bit, but what is there to do about it, but have a good attitude and look forward to each days new mercies. Along the way we are watching the new sprouts spring up on B's head. I cannot tell you just how excited B is about getting in some hair. He has been told by several BMT patients and read some stories of those that never grew their hair back. I don't think he could stand that. It's not vanity mind you, he was told by all the nurses just how great he looked without hair, and they should know. But B cannot stand the feeling of not having hair, it has been driving him crazy. So hair is good even if it is only about 3/8 of an inch :) I have a funy picture of one of our daughters when she was little, that I am waiting to see if there is a hair do resemblance. The pounds can't help but come back if you can see what this guy is eating every day. Good, healthy food, cooked right way, and eaten right away, and lots of it. Today's weigh in was 144! He still has skinny legs and arms, but he is proud to show me a little muscle in his arm, still a guy.
Going to infusion every day for the past 2 months has been a pain. Necessary, but a pain just the same. For B he has a couple hours of sitting at the very least. Well that would be OK for you and me, but B doesn't have any, I mean any, padding where he sits, so for him it is an uncomfortable task. He deals with this by reviewing his lab reports every day with annul attention. This is good because it causes him to focus and that is not easy to do with all the drugs and chemo brain. We watch the chem and blood levels of the lab report like we are watch the new hair sprout. These things remind us of the Springtime we see all around and the new life budding forth. We are living and breathing in this new life every day. In the midst we are grateful for the grace shone to us each day, by all those around us. We have seen kindness in the most unique ways and are blessed every day by these blessings.
Until next time,
Hopeful Believer.
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