it's friday!

I hope everyone has a great weekend planned ahead of them. I have some work to do around the house to get things ready for her to come up. We're still targeting towards the end of next week.

She had a bit of a rough day today. All of her vitals and numbers are OK, so medically she's doing well... but the pain was a bit more than normal today. This made her a little extra uncomfortable and as a result she didn't really eat a whole lot.

I met with the doctor this afternoon to get a general update and talk about what we can expect. I hadn't seen him in a few weeks, so it was good to talk with him first hand. We reviewed her current condition and her molecular data, liver functions, white blood cell counts, hemoglobin and platelets are all normal or close to normal. She's reached a stage they call "hematologic remission" (aka the blood work looks good). At some point in the next two weeks, she'll undergo another bone marrow test as a checkpoint to obtain another data point. Assuming that looks good, then we continue down the outpatient chemo path. If not, then we look at other treatment options. He gave me a schedule of what the outpatient plan is going to look like. I'll post it at some point over the weekend. All in all, the medical statistics are doing about as well as the can be at this point.

For those who missed it yesterday, check out http://www.reddy2run.com. I think its pretty cool.

She wanted to thank Ruth (neighbor), Elsa (family friend) and Amelia (family friend) for the cards today. Also, I wanted to thank Marco for the comment. I don't normally thank people individually for comments as everyone who reads the blog can see them, but being that we only got one comment I wanted to thank Marco. Only one comment. I must be getting boring :)