Walt has been looking great the past couple of days. This time around with Chemo he hasn't even lost his hair. He's very happy about that. His color is good, his spirits are up, he is doing more walking than he did the last round in the hospital. All around he has been very blessed (again).
The bone marrow biopsy results are back and everything looks good with the exception of some fibrous material found in the sample. The doctor thinks it's nothing to worry about and it could be scarring from a past injury to his bone in that localized spot. They did not find leukemic cells. Yea!
Over the weekend he got the cardiologists all excited with episodes of a soaring heart rate, but everything seems to be fine now. They have been monitoring his heart around the clock for several days, now, and seem to be satisfied that he is not in any danger. He also got to meet one of the hospital's pulmonologists when they discovered fluid collecting in his chest cavity that was limiting his lung capacity. They drained off 1 liter of the fluid and sent some of it off for testing. They said it looked good; it didn't appear to be infected. We don't have the results from the tests, yet.
Despite some possible scares over the weekend which both turned out fine, the doctor thinks his blood count will be coming back by the end of this week and a few days later they'll have to kick him out of the hospital because he's doing so well. The doctor says the middle of next week is possible. I think the end of next week or the beginning of the following week is more realistic based on how long it took for his counts to come back last time. The magic day for us is day 17 post chemo. That's when they came back last time. Pray for no infections or other serious complications and we'll have him home well before Christmas!
David's back in town and fulfilling his Dad-tucking-in responsibilities most nights this week.
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