administration and chemo delayed

A few administrative items first... I've received a couple people reaching out about the same things:

1. If you created an account, but didn't get the email then please check your spam filter/folder. If you still don't get it, then email me and I'll create the account for you.

As a side note, we have 87 signed up users and a bunch of others that just read but haven't created an account. We have heard from people from NY, NJ, Florida, DC, Texas, Toronto, Cuba, Latin America, Milan, London, Australia and probably a whole bunch of other places that I cant remember right now. pretty impressive.

2. the way the blog works is that on the homepage, it only shows the first 800 characters or so. To see the full post, click on the title or the Read More button - PAY ATTENTION MOM AND STOP COMPLAINING THAT YOU DIDN'T RECEIVE TJ'S PICTURES :)

OK, now back to our regularly scheduled programming and stuff that is really important.

They delayed chemo for another day. Most everything is back to normal at this point, but there was something related to belirubin that still wasn't completely where they wanted it to be. So, to be on the safe side, they delayed chemo for another day. Physically, she feels very good. she's been up and moving around quite a bit these past few days. She's been making a few walks down to the pantry and over to the nurses station. Additionally, her appetite has been really good which is something that we'll have to continue to watch. I think the steady diet of garbanzos and picadillo from her mom certain help... way better than the cold sandwiches and soggy waffles from the hospital.

The doctors and nurses are very impressed with how well she is doing given all that she has been through thus far. Apparently, the nurses fight over who gets to take care of Anna... she's a pretty good patient and mostly self sufficient, though she hasn't learned how to change her IV or draw her own blood just yet. I suspect by the end of this month, we'll both be capable of doing triage in the local ER.

TJ is on day 2 over at Anna's parents. It sounds like he's on vacation over there as he gets away with murder. Tino goes to Judy's house tomorrow. That's the lady that used to walk Tino back when we both worked.... she lives on a couple acres and has about 8 dogs of her own and always seems to be dog-sitting for someone else, so Tino has a fantastic time when he goes up there. Guess he's going on vacation as well. It's been too tough to look after him these past few weeks with different people (or no people) being in and out of the house. I'll be rockin the bachelor pad, though I don't seem to be there except for a couple hours of sleep a night.

She wanted me to thank everyone again for checking the blog and posting comments. I sit with her every night and read the comments. They always seem to cheer both of us up.