Time doesn’t fly

It’s been one week since Carol’s Leukemia blast cells were reduced to below the 5% mark. She was told that waiting for the white cell counts to go up was going to be slow and boring. They were kind of right in both cases. Time is slow but white cell counts are taking a bit of an upturn today. Hopefully, this is the beginning of the steady incline up and beyond the much waited for 500 ANC count.
Aside from some visits from friends and family, Carol sticks to the regular routines. Walks, yoga, massage, painting, reading a book, etc……
Wednesday afternoon Carol received a very nice visit from 2 friends from her rowing club, Judi Day and Cheryl Rayla. Of course, Carol took them for a short tour of the the USF Campus.
Wednesday evening Carol had to be given platelets as she was having some bleeding from a very small skin biopsy done that morning, and her platelets were at 7! The normal range is 150 to 400. Afterwards, Bari, her yoga teacher came to the room for a relaxing breathing/healing practice.
Today Carol's friend Chris Gilligan came for a nice visit, and again there was a lot of girl talk so I had to hit the road. Chris walked with Carol to the art room on the other side of the hospital where they picked up her last art project and returned to the room to find the nurse waiting for Carol to be hooked up to her antibiotics IV. Check out the picture of both chicks hugging the totem pole.
A walk outside with Chris was out of the question. Maybe next time……

Tonight is Susan’s arrival (Carol's sister) that promises to be another great weekend for both of them. For sure they will plan activities for every minute of Susan’s visit. It's always been that way every time Susan and Carol get together.
I am being sent home for the weekend.

More updates soon!!!!
Thank you.
Jaime