Tuesday, October 2, 2012

White counts up - resuming maintenance chemo

I'm behind on updating the blog. My sister is here on a visit from Tennessee, so we have been busy doing fun things.

Doug's latest blood test brought good news. His ANC is 2.1 and his white count is 3.3. Still a bit low, but good enough to resume the Revlimid. Yeah! We don't have the 5 mg. Revlimid yet, so for now Doug is taking 10 mg. every other day. Next week we should have the 5 mg. capsules.

Doug's eye is healing slowly, but it is healing. The glaucoma had raised his eye pressure to 23; a week after the surgery, the pressure was 1. That's too low. The surgeon said it should normalize to about 10 soon.

And the MM bloodwork shows he is still in remission! He is feeling pretty good. Saturday we leave for a trip back to Nebraska to check on Doug's mom, who is 99.

We have much to be thankful for.

Love to all.

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