Thursday, June 12, 2008 – I’m up; the dog is down.

I’m brand new at this blogging thing so bear with me.

First I want to thank my family for all of their support. Tom, Andrew, Kevin, my mom and siblings have just been tremendous over the past couple of weeks.

Each of you has played a big part in getting me back on my feet.

The care that you all and my medical care givers have provided has been second to none.

While I wish I could change the fact that I have cancer I wouldn’t change a thing about how everyone has helped me through this.

I’m doing fine with the care I’m getting with showers, meals, getting around and just doing regular things.

Today I started a three day regimen of the drug, Filgrastim also known as neupogen. This will build up my white blood cells so when the next round of chemo therapy lowers my white count it won’t wipe me out…at least that’s the theory. We’ll see how that goes.

I met with my physical therapist today. She’ll be coming a couple of times a week for the next several weeks to help me build up strength, especially in my legs so that it will be a little easier to get up the stairs in the evening. Coming down isn’t so bad and Tom and the boys are very watchful both coming and going.

I had great coverage today, Kevin is home from school and a school health colleague, Kathy came over for the day so I sent Tom back to work. But that was only after he dropped Ginger off at the vet for x-rays early this morning. Those x-rays show that Ginger has something abnormal in her abdomen. The next step is a sonagram to get a better picture.

There are still some lingering effects from last weekend’s chemo. One of them in particular will have me looking at a cranial prosthesis sooner rather than later.

Thanks for all of your prayers and support and I’ll try to keep up with this like Tom did.