Appointments

Jon had two appointments this week. One was with Dr. Stinnett, the other with Dr. McDonald.
Dr. Stinnett just wanted to follow up on the chemo to see how Jon responded to it. Jon did very well with the chemo. His white and red blood cells were both very low at his appointment. That is normal for chemo. The counts go up and down. Other than the low blood count, everything looked good. The doc just said because of the low blood counts he is more susceptible to catching illness so if he got a fever we would need to call immediately. Jon woke up early this morning saying his whole body was hurting. So I took his temperature, it was 99.7 which is a little high. Since it was so early I told him to take a tylenol, to see if that helped anything. His temperature went down and didn't come back up. I talked to Dr. Stinnetts nurse and she said it was nothing to worry about especially since it went back down and that it wasn't above 100.4. So hopefully it was just a minor thing that wont come back. The next chemo will be in two weeks.

The appointment with Dr. McDonald also went well. His kidney function is still not normal, but is way better. His protein levels were extremely high before, but have gone down a ton, so that's good news. The swelling is also way down, almost non-existent. Jon has lost 40 pounds since he has been out of the hospital. None of his clothes fit him, they all keep falling off. Also, the lupus had caused a lot of his hair to fall out, he wasn't bald or anything but very thin up top, I went to take a test last week and when I got home he had shaved his whole head. I should take a picture, I will do that.... sometime.

Some more good news is that I finished up summer semester! I even got good grades in my classes. I was taking 15 credits over the summer so I am very proud of myself. I'm not trying to brag or anything, I am just so happy to be done and finally on summer break, for two whole weeks! Then back to school....

We still appreciate everyone and the support they have given us. It feels really good to be getting back to a semi-normal life.