Friday, March 28 - Day +8

Thanks for all your text messages💖  We really are doing OK.  But this experience is unlike anything I can ever put in words.  To be SO happy with how things are going.  But SO tired and over it.  

I slept terribly last night.  However, I'm still in a different headspace today then yesterday.  I have to thank this AMAZING weather we are having.  It's like my two favorite weather days in one - strong thunderstorms this morning with amazing lightening and thunder (and hail!) (despite that it woke my family up at 4:30) and then amazing an abundant sunshine and HEAT.  

Day +8 and we are losing our minds!

Our appointment went well.  We had Nurse Emma again and we placed some wagers on what we thought Andy's platelets were going to be.  

Dana said 10 (but really wanted 11)

Andy said 17

Emma said 15

Unfortunately...I won (ish).  We were at 7.  Gosh darn it!  We were so frustrated.  Three days of transfusions and the numbers still went DOWN!  Emma was 100% unphased.  Telling us (again) how fragile platelets are and how we could still receive another transfusion tomorrow.  It has always been our MO to respond the way the nurses do.  So.  If Emma was OK with dropping platelets...then so are we.  

Andy got a BIG OL BAG of platelets today.  Like both nurses commented on how big the bag was.  C'mon little platelets...work your magic!  

Everything else was relative the same.  Hg dropped slightly, but not big.  WBC and ANC still at 0.  Now we'll start betting on those...when will we see them start to increase?  (Oh!  We SHOULD start a pool for this - like those pools you start when someone is having a baby - when will the WBC start to increase and what will be the first number?  I say Monday at .4 (You guys...I have NO idea what I'm talking about...))

Our appointment is tomorrow at 9 - which is nice.  At least it's not 7:30 for a weekend. 

This afternoon was nice.  Andy slept.  I was off.  I did some cleaning.  Did some laundry. And mustered up the energy to run on this beautiful day.  We even sat outside for a little bit, enjoying this amazing sun.