November 6, 2013.. Today was a cool, windy day in Little Rock and raining part of the day.

I finished with the chemo pumps today so I am not carrying the bag now. We were at the hospital about 2 hours today. It feels good to be able to walk around normally now and not have to be concerned that I am going to hook the little hoses on something and pull them loose. There are some people here that are on a 28 day regiment using the chemo pumps. It would be hard to do that for 28 days. 

I have felt good today. I expect that my low point will be in about a week or less. I am not sure why there is a delay. I guess it takes that long for the chemo to have its full effect. During that time, my white cell count will drop to a very low level as well as other blood components. I will begin the two injections per day of Neupogen, one at 8am and another at 4pm. This injection is a growth factor and will cause the white cells to start returning. The last times I was here, they doubled the growth factor injections so I was getting 4 shots per day of Neupogen. While my white count is so low, I will avoid other people as much as I can and wear a mask when I am around other people. 

I saw an older and frail man in the infusion area. The nurse asked him how many stem cells he got today and he said they got 71 million. It is hard to believe how much I have had to do to get 4.6 million so far.

My white cell count was 1.96, hemoglobin-9.2, platelets-140

Happy Birthday tomorrow to my sweet niece Dianna.