Happy New Year!



Happy New Year everyone!  I hope that 2013 brings everyone Health & Happiness!

We spent Christmas at Mom and Dads house.  Mom got some tamales and made enchaladas...yummmmm!  It was a nice day.  My company (Mike and Michelle) were both stuck at my house with a cold so they weren't able to spend the day with the family. :-(

It has been a time since I have updated most of you on Dad's condition.  I was working a seaonal job as well as the two other jobs.   I apologize for being so late in doing so but here is a recap of what has been going on.

Dad went in for his scans and his tumors have shrunk!  Whoo Hoo!!  From what I understand, the lungs showed the biggest improvement.  The external tumors really didn't change but as he said, they can cut those suckers out.

He and Mom did ring in the New Year in the ER at University Medical Center.  He had a fever of about 101 and per the Cancer Center, anything over 100 mandates a trip to the ER.  His white blood cell count was at .08 when he arrived and by last night was only at .07.  Normal range is 4.25-10.25 so as you can see it was EXTREMELY low. 

He did call me last night to give me a "to-do" list for work so I know he was feeling better.  I spoke with him this morning and he said he was just wiped out.  I banned him from work until next week as Jen's family has had a bout of the flu going around and I am still stuffy.  The slightest illness is extremely serious so why even chance it? 

Let's hope that we continue to get good news!!  I will try to update more frequently now that the Holidays are over.

Kim