Wednesday Evening
Greetings and God’s grace and love to all!
Today has been another very hard day for Marty. In fact the hardest since she has been home from the hospital and perhaps even the hardest since she started treatment. Part of the reason we found out this afternoon is that hemoglobin is down to about 7.0. So, we are off for a trip to St. V’s tomorrow for 3 units of blood. She is also having a lot of pain in her right shoulder. Dr. Lee thought he felt a lump in that area, so there will be a cat scan done of that area while we are in Indy. Then the third problem was a general not feeling good, being very tired, and having no energy and so forth. Again Dr. Lee thinks that her white blood cells recovered faster from the chemo than the hemoglobin did and as the hemoglobin is trying to catch up it is making her feel the way she does. So, our hope is that the 3 units of blood will give the hemoglobin a kick start and some help to catch up to the WBC and all will be well. That will be nice and we are certainly praying for that to happen.
Dr. Lee said that the WBC is high enough to get the next treatment. So, if the hemoglobin comes up and the other two stay where they are, Marty will probably go back to St. V next week for consolidation treatment number two. Praise the Lord! That will be nice because it will get us home 5 days before Christmas and numbers should be pretty good for when the kids are here. God is good and will take care of us. Praise the Lord!
Need to go because 4:00am is going to come around real fast, since we have to be at St. V’s at 6:30am in the morning. Have a good day and God bless.
Marty and Jack
John 3:16
Greetings and God’s grace and love to all!
Today has been another very hard day for Marty. In fact the hardest since she has been home from the hospital and perhaps even the hardest since she started treatment. Part of the reason we found out this afternoon is that hemoglobin is down to about 7.0. So, we are off for a trip to St. V’s tomorrow for 3 units of blood. She is also having a lot of pain in her right shoulder. Dr. Lee thought he felt a lump in that area, so there will be a cat scan done of that area while we are in Indy. Then the third problem was a general not feeling good, being very tired, and having no energy and so forth. Again Dr. Lee thinks that her white blood cells recovered faster from the chemo than the hemoglobin did and as the hemoglobin is trying to catch up it is making her feel the way she does. So, our hope is that the 3 units of blood will give the hemoglobin a kick start and some help to catch up to the WBC and all will be well. That will be nice and we are certainly praying for that to happen.
Dr. Lee said that the WBC is high enough to get the next treatment. So, if the hemoglobin comes up and the other two stay where they are, Marty will probably go back to St. V next week for consolidation treatment number two. Praise the Lord! That will be nice because it will get us home 5 days before Christmas and numbers should be pretty good for when the kids are here. God is good and will take care of us. Praise the Lord!
Need to go because 4:00am is going to come around real fast, since we have to be at St. V’s at 6:30am in the morning. Have a good day and God bless.
Marty and Jack
John 3:16
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