April 10, 2006
Today I had an additional blood draw to see if the extra days of Neupogen stopped the dropping numbers. They did, with an incremental improvement in the counts, so I am hopeful that now I will enter the “no shot zone” of the calendar. This should give the body’s tissues a time to regroup and rest before the next round of chemotherapy which begins in ten days. Over the weekend we did the math and determined that it was highly unlikely that the immune system would come up to a place where a long trip by air to Russia would be an acceptable activity, so with great reluctance, we took the initial steps to cancel our trip there with the Abendmusik Chorus. We immediately began to direct our energies to a family get-together in the Colorado mountains instead; this way the summer will not be a time of loss, but rather a diversion – another time, we say, and Moscow and St. Petersburg will be still there for our viewing.