Austin’s hemoglobin numbers are holding steady, he’s at 13.2 again this week. Platelets are still coming down which is another good sign, we dropped from 634 to 565. So even with dropping his steroid dose by 10 mgs the numbers are very good. Tomorrow we will drop the steroid dose by another 10 mgs, we will be down to 30 mgs – we’ve never hit that number yet so hoping all goes well. The lowest dose he’s been on was 40 mgs prior to the Rituximab treatments and when his numbers dropped down to 7.6 we had to bring the dose back up.
The weekend was a busy one, plenty of time for friends and family. While I worked the Winter Jam at Joe Louis Arena, Gen was in Ohio for Hockey and Natalie was working so Austin and Dad had a Men’s night out. Dad let Austin pick where he wanted to go to eat and he picked Polonus, a Polish restaurant, we were just a little surprised. He seems to be a little more adventurous in food, he also likes a local Mexican restaurant a lot.
His eating is still non-stop throughout the day and I just try to manage it the best I can without creating problems. Today I'm doing a little shredding while pulling kitchen sentry duty, we recently purchased a shredder and my to be shredded pile is huge, I've got old taxes going back far too many years, even back to the days when I worked (filing cabinet has a lot more space since I just filtered through what could be shredded). At least while the shredder is under full-warranty I'll give it a good workout. Not a very exciting life, eh!
Mom, Dad, Austin and Genevieve scheduled a long overdue visit with Meme and Pepe on Sunday. This was the first time we had the opportunity to visit them at their new apartment. I’m thinking on a warm day I could really enjoy their balcony, very good size with a nice view of the river and the car ferry from Amherstburg to Bob-Lo island, we’ll have to wait and see how obstructed the view will be when the trees are in full bloom. We had a nice long visit and sadly the women didn’t do too well in cards, next time we’ll turn that around. I always have a couple of drinks with my lovely Canadian Mum (MIL) and as I watched her make a couple I do understand why I always leave feeling a little tipsy J, I’d get two fingers of Canadian Club to her one, oh well makes for a relaxing ride home.
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