It has been a rough week so far. Jason's had a multitude of new symptoms pop up, making him both frustrated and miserable. The latest is anemia. His blood work showed him as borderline severe anemic, so he might be in need of a blood transfusion. We just got back from the hospital to get a retest. If his hemoglobin level has dropped, he will have to get a blood transfusion and we will have to postpone our trip to SD. This would be a huge bummer! We were really looking forward to coming out for the weekend. We are hoping to get the results tonight if we can get a hold of the on-call physician, but most likely, we won't find out until morning. He is also having blurry vision and floaters in one eye, making video-gaming impossible, and some various digestive problems. So he is not a happy camper. We have an appointment with his oncologist tomorrow, so hopefully we will find out more about everything that is going on. As far as when we find out if the IL2 is working, he is scheduled for a CT scan and brain MRI next Friday, Oct. 3. We should get the results the following Monday. Jason is also scheduled to be admitted to the hospital that day, so his next treatment will be dependent on the results of the tests. We are hoping for the best...and at the very least, disease stability.
On a lighter note, as a joke, Terry bought Jason a Texas Longhorn blanket. You can imagine how thrilled he was. This has got to be the most unflattering picture I have ever taken, but it was the only one we could get with Jason sort of smiling. So I am taking the sacrifice. So here it is...the picture of us enjoying his new "bankie".
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