Stop, Wait, Good, and Better
Marilee made her scheduled visit to Huntsman Cancer Institute today to see Dr. Ward and staff. As we thought, her platelets were too low for a chemo treatment. That has been rescheduled for January 4, 2012. So she will have a couple of weeks to enjoy the holidays without the after effects of the chemo. She did get another unit of blood today and will be getting a pill form for potassium. As I understand, they will have home health take blood tests twice a week from now on so they can get her ready for the next treatment.
Good news is that also on the 4th of January, they will do a scan to see how the chemo has been working and the better or best of the day was the report that her liver enzyme tests were normal which from a non-medical person sounds like very good news and that progress is occurring.
Heidi took Marilee into the clinic today before heading back to St. George this evening. Kelli had a t-shirt made for Dr. Ward that says "I am always "cautiously optimistic'. He apparently really liked it.
I guess Marilee made a post while I have written this so this may be somewhat duplicating the info.
Merry Christmas to All
Rick, Marilee, Kelli, Pete, Max, Jillian, Heidi, Josh, Alisa, Ryan, Jenna and Skipbo (the dog)
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