Monday, August 18, 2014

Afghan or Afghan: 2 definitions

He became a blankie guy thanks to Molly Reiner and her knitting talents.  Molly spent her free time this summer knitting Harry this beautiful afghan.  Harry has spent almost as much time nestled inside of it, as Molly took to create it.

Raina however sees Afghan in a different light and continues to practice her Tajik (spoken in Afghanistan.

My posts are a week behind and I apologize but my life feels as it is moving a week behind.  So I guess it balances out for me.

The weekend away made a huge difference in Harry's overall attitude and his numbers.  While not normal, still a huge improvement.

Normal                     Harry 6/18       6/24        7/1         7/8.       7/21.     7/23        7/25       8/1      8/11
Hemoglobin  12-16      14.1                13.3.     13.2         13.3      8.7          7.4          7.7        7.3    10.6
Platelets 150-350        235                 174.       168           170        89          65          78         370   309
WBC  5000-10000     8750              6300.      6200       3900      2006       1005      1420      640   3390
ANC.    Above 1500.                       4700.      2770       1460       1150       270       480          50    1620


Tuesday he was back for a full day.  830 am until almost 430 pm.  But to make the time go faster we had two special guests.  Raina spent the day with us!  And what can make Larry David go faster than sharing it with your sister.  Second was cousin Ted Sandler who just graduated from college and got to spend his week before beginning work donating blood, sitting in the hemoc clinic and driving up to Radnor to visit his grandmother (my beloved aunt, who is really a cousin, Ruth Jane Schwartz.). 

Luckily this was a week where the nursing came to Harry, and he received 3 treatments at home with Barbara, our Walgreens nurse.
 Monday's poker included late night skate boarding down Ordway - DC's version of SF.  Back to the hospital tomorrow.

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