We Make a Break For It

Jon got another dose of platelets today since he keeps using them up but everything else seems to be fine. In fact, his white blood count is inching up.  After two days of 0.07, yesterday was 0.1 and today was a whopping 0.25. If you were to graph that, it would be a good trajectory. Still very close to the bottom but the important thing is that he is starting to make new blood cells.  Neutrophils remain at a solid 0.00.

All I can say is he has incredible energy for someone who is running on fumes.  

So after we got back from another tough day at the office, we had some lunch and I joined my girlfriends for some Zoom time.  But we had already decided that if Jon felt well enough to hit the road, we were going to head out.  We headed south.

We got home by about 3:30, clear blue skies and mid 80s, all the trees look so leafy and full, and the crabapples are still blooming. Jon took a quick nap on the couch in our big empty house and I headed out to do some spading, since I could.  Fluffed up some more ground and thought about what should happen next. Jon put a battery charger on yet another dead battery.  He has job security forever.

Had a delicious glimpse of Mika and her sweet parents, got to catch up with Carrie for a few minutes, and we attended the Blueberry Hill meeting while we drove back to Baltimore.

We have SO much food in the fridge, thanks to all those nice friends and neighbors. Plus we tried out this crazy little plastic box that makes perfect pasta in the microwave and it worked. I had linguine and amazing mushrooms grown by Michael L's nephew and cooked by Julia, mixed with leftover turkey meatloaf. Jon put those mushrooms in some of Ilene's wonderful cauliflower soup.

It was a really good day.

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