Smoother sailing

His numbers are staring to look a little better. There's been a slight upward movement of his white blood count. We're hoping by the end of the week that his platelets and his red blood will be able to stay above a certain minimum for two days between transfusions. When he makes that benchmark, if his strength is back, we can look to move out of the hospital and in to my sisters house on Winnemac st in Madison. My sister Robin and her husband Jed are living there now but they're moving over a little bit so Gil and I can stay there as an interim spot while he finishes up his stabilization.

Tomorrow they will be getting a reading of his myeloma activity, his IGG. It has come down a little since his initial hospitalization, but tomorrow we'll get a better sense of how responsive his myeloma has been/will be to chemo. If it has gone down enough, Dr Callendar will try him on Velcade again and then look to layering some other drug on top.

There are still lots of unknowns, and a lot of fallout from this latest crisis that only time will tell what degree of normal he will return to.

But it's way smoother than it was last Monday night, as a nurse who had off since last Monday reminded us. Gratitude.