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I did not have chemo this past week, it was my scheduled off week. Friday I had my weekly lab drawn. My white count was beautiful. The red count was low and I received a shot of Epogen. My platelet count was low (80) and unfortunately there’s nothing I can do for platelets. I will need my platelets be  at least 100 to receive chemo this coming the 16th. Rest, prayers and hopefully they will be high enough. I have been resting plenty as I am quite exhausted from our trip.
 
We reviewed my latest tumor marker (CA 15-3) and the good news is it dropped 75 points. and is now under 600. Normal is less than 30. We will repeat it every 2 weeks to make sure it continues to drop. They still have concerns the cancer has spread to a 3rd site but we will monitor. We are trying to stretch out my exposure to radiation from the scans since it is quite possible we might use radiation with the bone cancer at some point. The plan is to repeat all the scans after Thanksgiving.

Trudy and I had lunch Friday, we ate at Pappadeaux. We split a greek salad. I got to play with her new HCT touch phone (Sprint). I setup her connection to the Exchange server at work. John, David and I went to dinner with my folks and some of their long time friends tonight, Sunday. Several of them were benefactors for David on the 3-Day walk. The company was grand and the food was pretty good too. We had tortilla soup, king ranch casserole, tamales, seven layer dip and a cake that was to die for. They also had a homemade cherry pie but after the cake I didn’t have any room. They are all active readers of the blog.