All's well

Joe's still in the hospital, and is still nutrapenic. Yesterday his platelets were down to 45 and his white blood count was pretty low too. Today they are slightly higher, so that's good. His tumours (turns out he has 2!) have gotten smaller! YAY! He also has lost between 30 and 40 pounds since he went into the hospital (1 month ago! Can you believe it?). Man, let me tell ya, if you want to lose weight, cancer's the fastest method ever, although Joe says he would have preferred a different method. His stubble is falling out and getting all over the pillow, so he's considering getting the nurse to shave his head. He seems to be in pretty good spirits for the most part, although he's really missing human contact since we're not allowed to touch him. :( But, he does gets to watch the Discovery channel all day, and that really bouys his spirits! His port infection is looking tons better, and that's REALLY good!

The Deladum they had him on for pain stopped working, so they switched him to Morphine, but that was making him throw up. So now they've put him on massive quantities of Deladum, and that seems to work like a charm. The doctor said that the problem they're facing is Joe's size. Since Burkitt's is usually a children's disease, they have no frame of reference for time frames or medication amounts. Seems you can't just say, oh well, a 50 pound kid gets this much, so let's see here, multiply by. . .carry the one. . . They're pretty much estimating everything and seeing what works. He was supposed to start his next round of chemo on the 13th, but the doctor says no way until his counts are up enough. So he WILL come home between, the question is just how long will that be? No body knows but God, and he ain't spilling the beans.

The Pampered Chef party is being moved to March 15th at 11am. Once again, if you want to be invited email me! I should be getting the info tomorrow for anyone who can't come to the party but still wants to be involved. Thanks for all the great interest already expressed! We are all genuinely touched and grateful for all the wonderful support and love coming our way. You people are THE BEST!!

The spell check on this blog no longer seems to work, so I apoligize if anything is horribly mangled. I used to be able to spell, but aging and spell check ruined it all.