Tuesday~5th Day of Treatment

I'm sitting here trying to figure out what to write...it was a good good day. Steve ate a huge breakfast of bisquits and gravy followed by a decent lunch and topped it off with a late afternoon snack of strawberry shortcake, that's more than he has had in a week. His spleen has really shrunk down and his color looks wonderful. But as I sit in the lobby and am stumped on what to type I begin to hear his harmonica filling the halls with the sam beautiful music I've heard in our home for nearly 40 years. The nurses are drawn by the beauty of his worship and gather outside his door, again. I can't get over what the presence of this man does in the lives of others and see the powerful love of God pouring out of him to those around him.

The visits we had today were precious, encouraging, and strenghtening. Steve is on the 5th day of treatment. We found out today that at the end of the 7th day of treatment he will be monitored for another 7 days without any chemo. On the 14th day he will have a bone morrow test, I'm grasping to understand what a healthy bone marrow test would look like. His counts are still coming down nice and slow just like they want and I keep hearing the words "he's cruising along okay". As his counts drop, the doctor said today, that more side effects will begin to appear such as lose his hair, low resistance to infection, and I don't know what else cause I haven't finished the booklets yet. They are on my to do list...about halfway down.

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