No chemo today. Dad was pretty upset he didn't get a treatment. His white blood cell count is down and with it being so low the doctor said he wouldn't be able to fight infection. He took this week off and then he will have chemo next week and then a week off. And then he will meet with the doctor and from there we are back to doing three weeks on, a week off, three weeks on..... Dr. Draper said that it is normal to have low white blood counts after chemo and that he has rarely seen a case where you didn't have to take a week off.
We were disappointed, but what can you do, you know. It's not in our hands. But dad didn't have any major side effects of the first round of chemo from last week, no swollen feet or nauseous, so that is good news. And his pain is manageable mainly because they changed his medicine but he is okay.
So we wait again until next week. We hope that dad will have a good day each day. We can only take one day at a time and just wake up and be thankful for the days that we do have, but we want him to be pain free and to get back to somewhat normalcy so he can enjoy life and of course play golf!
Much love to all,
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