Well, I should be reporting about my first day at chemo this week, but there has been a change in plans. I had my labs drawn this morning and went to visit with Dr. Te before treatment. The CT results were good. Most of the nodes have diminished in size. A few are still a little enlarged. He was pleased with that. But my labs from this morning showed counts that made him want to put off treatment for a week at least. The idea of a chemo cycle is to send the drugs in to kill the cancer cells. But along the way, they kill and damage white and red cells. That is why there are 25 days between treatments. To give time for the red and white count to bounce back up.I guess they didn't bounce back enough this time. My white count is only 1.7. He says if you do a treatment when it is too low, it does more damage to the marrow that it doesnt recover from. So for that reason, I guess I'm glad to wait. Just a little disappointing to be mentally prepared for it, then have to wait. Plus I've planned the spring and summer activities around the schedule I thought I would be on. Oh well, I guess flexibility should be expected.

There is a shot they can give to bring up the white count. I had one when I was in the hospital last month. I called the office to see if I should get one of those again. I'm waiting to hear back from them.

I am a pretty structured person who lives by lists and schedules. Not too much has been by the book for this adventure so far. So I need to be patient and just take things as they come.