Thursday Dec. 30th (Day +21)

Hanging out Christmas morning

Sophie & James cuddling - so cute!

Thank goodness things have been fairly uneventful since we've been home...we had a wonderful Christmas together as a family, very relaxing and stayed in our pj's most of the day!  It's hard to believe that so much time has already passed and it's time for me to return to work this weekend.  But I'm ready to go back, if for nothing else than to feel that our lives are starting to return to "normal".

Today at clinic we were in and out in an hour and a half, not setting any records but pretty good going!  Labs are more or less continuing to trend in the right direction.  All of Brian's blood counts (hemoglobin, platelets, and white blood cells) are slowly but surely regenerating and repopulating.  His creatinine is his biggest rival right now (and very possibly forever), as it's wavering around 3.  It went down as low as 3.05 this past Monday and was up to 3.19 again today - not huge jumps like before, but discouraging that it went up versus down.  So Brian's job right now is to drink as much as he possibly can and to work on eating more - sounds like a dream come true to me, but sadly it's a chore to him.  On a good note though, we don't have to go into clinic for another week!  And if his counts are stable next Thursday they'll decrease his visits to every two weeks - sounds good to us!

So now it's all about eating, drinking, and getting some energy back.  Just wait until a Guinness tastes good to him...it will be difficult to stop him once he starts!