More waiting...

Margie and Robert are back at the apartment as she waits for her numbers to continue coming up.
This is a process, as it's slow and she won't be in "pre-transplant" status until her numbers are up to where they need to be.
Tuesday (tomorrow) she's tentatively scheduled for a bone marrow biopsy, and then another tentative proceedure of
cranial and spinal raditation once the numbers are up.

So, as of sunday, Margies white cells wer up to 300, the nutriphyl (spelling?) is at 120 and she's still going in daily for platelet transfusions. The platelets won't replenish themselves without the white cells also climbing so she has to be supported with platelets during this waiting time.

I've mentioned before that you and I walk around with over 100k of platelets and she gets down to about 9 thousand regulary.
Several times now in the last few days since being back to the apartment, when she's gone into get her transfusion, she has to go in by wheelchair because there's just nothing left.

Margie's doing well with the protein intake and is taking in a required 70 plus grams a day. She said that food is tasting better and it's not quite an issue eating as it was with the mouth sores. Her weight at the hospital went up due to the edema and all the drugs and fluids, but now she's on about 5 different drugs a day, the edema's gone and the extra weights gone, so as we know, spirits are up if the weights down! (I was telling Cathy recently that it's amazing what a difference five pounds can make on us "petite flowers")

She's getting better sleep at the apartment as one might imagine and is only waking a couple times during the night. I sure hear it in her voice- she sounds rested and clear again.
Not possible to get in the miles that she was at the hospital pre and during chemo. Now that she's got very little blood product in her, she can barely get to the hospital bed to get her platelet transfusions, so the marathons will have to wait for now.

All for now, dears-
Kathleen