Minor Setback, if that.

David was scheduled for his second chemo treatment yesterday. When we get there, we usually wait 10 minutes in the waiting room and then a few in the exam room. He gets hooked up to about 8 inches of IV tubing to his mediport, they take blood, he sees the doctor and then he's hooked up to the chemo and chillin' for six hours. Well, his white blood count was low yesterday--- too low to do chemo. They don't know why it was low. They said if it did get low, they would expect that 10 days after treatment, but he had it checked last Friday and the counts were good. The doctor asked David not to be so difficult, this is not something that they see often with the chemo treatment David is on. It was hard to believe for us, the nurse and the doctor.

David did not take that news well. He feels fine and of course there's no "feeling" like they are low. They have scheduled him to get blood work at 9am on Friday, and if his counts are back up (and we expect then to be back up) then he will have chemo Friday. Everything felt out of control for David and he felt in his words "helpless because he can't get better any faster." There is not really anything he can do to contribute to getting better sooner other than taking care of himself and getting treatment. We are not patient patients.

We'll update again on Friday. We don't know what this will do in regards to the overall schedule. I don't think they would keep it up and have another treatment 10 days after Friday, so i think they'll hold him up a week.