Lately there just hasn’t been hardly any good news regarding my mother.  I just haven’t been the emblem of optimism lately and therefore have avoided writing about too much of anything.  Today, however, my mother saw her doctor and I finally have something good about which I can write.  The tumors in her liver have substantially shrank and the ones in her lungs have also atrophied, albeit not at the same rate as the liver tumors. 

When I saw my mother on Wednesday she looked considerably better than she has over the past two months.  We think a lot of her improvement was due to the fact that she wasn’t able to do chemo last weekend, when she was normally scheduled, because the platelets in her blood were way too low.  She had to have a transfusion and a couple of days later she seemed to sound and look much better.  In fact, she looked better on Wednesday that she has over the last couple of months.  She is starting chemo again Monday, but at least now we have some empirical proof that she is doing better, despite some of the setbacks.

I can tell I haven’t written hardly anything lately.  I started off with a big long entry and ended up winnowing it down to the two paragraphs above.  I decided to strip out all the unnecessary news and just give you the good stuff.
I hope you’re one else will have a wonderful weekend.  I know I plan on it.
BP
PS it seems that my microphone troubles have returned.  I may need to look at purchasing a new sound card, so I ask for your forbearance.

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