A Good Weekend

Kevin’s platelet levels rose both Saturday and Sunday! We were concerned that the radiation was making his platelets drop, but if that were the case, it probably would have taken a couple more days of no radiation for his platelet levels to bottom out. Now, we are more convinced that the platelets were reacting to a medication that Kevin stopped taking on Thursday. The radiation oncologists may still decide to switch to more localized radiation sometime this week to give his bone marrow in his spine a break, but at this point, radiation is still scheduled to continue.

Kevin had two good days of rest. He enjoyed a chocolate milkshake from Jeffrey’s Hamburgers on Saturday night. He had to drink it slowly because it was so thick (lots of ice cream in that one!), but he liked it, and reported that it’s also tied for third.

We have been trying to convince Kevin to get out of the hospital bed and sit up in a chair more often, and we were more successful with that convincing this weekend. Today, he ate two meals in a chair (that may be a record since he got to Stanford), watched most of both football games in the chair and went for a wheelchair ride outside to get some much needed love, licks and dog hair from Chammy. We’re very proud of his hard work!