Susan here...
Yesterday Nathan went to the clinic. His counts are down (but not all the way down yet) and he got a red blood cell transfusion. He was the only patient in for treatment and so at lunch time the nurses and Nathan and I went outside to have a picnic lunch. It was a nice change in scenery and we all enjoyed it. He was enjoying himself anyway playing cars on the floor of the clinic while he was getting his transfusion.
He goes back in on Wednesday to get his counts taken and we also anticipate he will need platelets. We are still trying to work out the mess of getting his stem cells harvested. There has been much calling back and forth between doctors. Fortunately we will be going up to Denver ourselves on Thursday so hopefully we can get things figured out. We are anxious for Nathan's counts to get down and start coming up so we can get the show on the road without delaying his chemo too much.
We can tell he isn't feeling great today and is somewhat cranky but we are always amazed by how happy he is. We had a neighbor girl stop by and want the kids to go out and play. She is 10 or so. She saw Nathan and asked why he didn't have hair and so I told her he had cancer. She got pretty upset and I felt bad for putting it so bluntly but I guess it really is just a fact of life these days. She asked if he was going to die - that was the first time anyone has asked that. I told her that I didn't know but that he was undergoing treatment and doing well.
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