Holding Pattern

Thank you for the milkshake recommendations! Kevin is working his way through them. He is also getting to try a bit more food variety; he had a couple bites of soft vegetable lasagna, and he will get to try some muffins tomorrow. He has requested Dad’s chocolate chip cookies, which should be very exciting to taste after going several months without them. Dad really does make the best chocolate chip cookies. I learned everything I know about baking chocolate chip cookies from Dad!

Besides some new foods, which seem very exciting compared to puréed vegetables, there haven’t been many new developments within the past few days. Kevin has been continuing to work hard during therapy. Everyone seemed to be waiting for Kevin to get off the antibiotics, which he successfully did today. Now, his platelets need to get back above 100,000 (they’re at 97,000 today…missed the mark by a tiny bit!) before he can start chemotherapy. We’ll wait for his platelets to rise over the weekend, and the doctors will reassess the situation next week.

Yesterday, Kevin received a visit from the nurse who took care of him when he went into the ICU at Santa Clara back in February. We were extremely impressed by her dedication and hard work while she was caring for Kevin. We recently let her know that Kevin had improved enough to return to the rehab unit, so she dropped by to say hello. Kevin didn’t remember her because the drugs he was on at that point had amnesiac side effects, but the nurse was thrilled to see Kevin doing so much better than when she last saw him.

This week has been relatively calm and uneventful (especially compared to some of the horribly hectic weeks in the recent past that have bombarded us with bad news), so I'm sorry I don't have much to share! Honestly, though, calm weeks are easier on everyone involved.