Friday July 5

Friday July 5

Luke was discharged from MDA Tuesday evening.  He's moving rather slow.  Having a lot of joint pain that is being attributed to the neupogen he is getting putting is bone marrow into over drive producing blood cells.

In additional to all the other medications he is now getting antibiotics and fungicide.  Antibiotics are for a bacterial infection which is not expected to take long to clear up.  getting rid of the fungus is going to take a while. 

White count is still coming up, red cell count is steady platelets are still low.  Luke went to MDA this morning for blood counts and as this is being written he is getting a bag of platelets. 

At this point we are not sure whether Luke will star the next round of chemo next week or wait.  The next round is the first of four three-week cycles of methotrexate.