Day 22
There isn't much to report concerning John, I'm glad to say. He is doing well by all measures. His white blood count is now 4.8, which is right at the low side of normal. Despite his nosebleeds, which have stopped, his platelet count looks good. John's energy level is poor, but he has enough to play video games and doesn't need nausea or pain medication most of the time. He doesn't have much of an appetite, but he did eat most of a steak and potato dinner last night. Finding things that taste normal to him is no easy project.
Debbie flew back to Atlanta this morning for the week. Yesterday afternoon, she and I took an hour or so and sailed on Lake Union. The lake serves as a seaplane landing strip and I realized as a dozen or more took off, landed and taxied around us that there may be no right of way rules for an encounter between a seaplane and a sailboat. One plane chose to "dock" at the spot where we planned, though it was impossible to tell and we circled each other for a time in what had to be a bizarre appearing dance.
Looking forward to next week, John will have a bone marrow biopsy on Wednesday, which will give a good picture of the success of his transplant and indicate whether any leukemia blast cells remain. Based on all the indications we have at this point, we expect to hear good news, although it will take perhaps a week for the full results to come in.
Debbie flew back to Atlanta this morning for the week. Yesterday afternoon, she and I took an hour or so and sailed on Lake Union. The lake serves as a seaplane landing strip and I realized as a dozen or more took off, landed and taxied around us that there may be no right of way rules for an encounter between a seaplane and a sailboat. One plane chose to "dock" at the spot where we planned, though it was impossible to tell and we circled each other for a time in what had to be a bizarre appearing dance.
Looking forward to next week, John will have a bone marrow biopsy on Wednesday, which will give a good picture of the success of his transplant and indicate whether any leukemia blast cells remain. Based on all the indications we have at this point, we expect to hear good news, although it will take perhaps a week for the full results to come in.
