His red blood and platelets are still dropping and he needed both to be transfused yesterday. His IGG (myeloma indicator) is up slightly again. His myeloma, so far, has been insufficiently daunted by the heavy guns they've used. So they added his old chemo Revlemid on top of the Velcade. We'd heard how the two together make a third chemo which can work as well as either did originally.
Then again, his myeloma is not the responsive little kitty cat it once was.
And he is not the big brute that he once was.
He's lost a lot of weight (20#s?) in this last month and pretty much all of it muscle; he still has his cute little Buddha belly. And he's not eating, not even bagels! or meat ! They added something yesterday to stimulate appetite and it must have worked, because the Thai food tasted ok, even good, and went down with out feedback that I've heard of. I'd throw budgets to the wind and get him take out food every meal, if he'd eat it. But when his appetite is down, even his old passions don't seem to appeal. I look forward to getting him to Winnemac; and plying him with my cooking and some of our choice ingredients.
He's been working hard with PT to get his balance and knee back in shape, but yesterday with his counts down, he was wiped out and feeling rotten. Transfusing helped, but we can't do it indefinitely. Sooner or later his own marrow has to start producing and keeping his own blood cells.
It's definitely a mixed bag right now.
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