Well, never mind....no chemo for me today!!

After going to the lab to have the line put in for my chemo treatment, I went to my doctor's appt.

She first came in and said my red/white blood counts looked really good and gave me a hug. We spent most of our time trying to figure out when I would be able to return to work.

After going over all of this, she went back out to get the final results on my blood and found that although my cell counts looked good, my platelets were too low. The first sign is usually bleeding gums. I normally don't talk about all the grose side effects but thought this wouldn't be so bad.....I've had the bleeding gums the past few weeks but thought it was from the cumulative effect of the chemo treatments....so I didn't say anything. Well, it usually is the first sign that your platelets are low and sure enough it caught up with me.

There is not a shot they can give to get your platelets back up so she said, we would have to wait another week. This only prolongs my pain and getting back to normal so this is one time, I'm not happy to delay. I just want it to be overrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

However, on the good side I realized that by being on delay it would give me opportunity to go shopping with Angela for her prom dress. Yes, I know her prom isn't until May but why wait? Since Kimberly just left to go on a ski trip, this leaves only Angela at home. So, this gives us time to spoil her by herself; since I've been home with Kimberly for the past 8 months, this will give Angela some time with us to herself. All kids need alone time with parents, I believe....

So, it is not a lost cause....I'm sure I could use a few days to catch up on seeing my 90 yr. old grandpa and playing cards or doing something creative other than sitting in my chair all day. ha.

Thanks for the prayers....hopefully next week will be the final charm. I did find out in 9 weeks they will start all the testing....

Take Care,
As always,
Love,
Leah