Yesterday

Micah's half birthday was yesterday! I am amazed at how quickly the last 6 months have passed. Craziness! He's doing extremely well. He laughs all the time which I just love. He's rolling all over the place and attempting to crawl. Right now it's just a scoot. He's sitting pretty well balancing himself about 90% of the time. He adores books and will do anything to get his hands on a phone or TV remote! He's making a lot more sounds and copying faces and noises which is lots of fun. At his appt on Monday he was 21 lbs and 27 inches, in the 90th and 75th percentile respectively. His pedi agreed with us that he's doing really wonderfully. And here's my big guy earlier today.

On a completely different note, yesterday was a very long day for me. My blood counts came back excessively low and had to go to the hospital for a blood transfusion. I was very nervous about it. I got to the hospital at 2:00 and got home at 11:15! It was a long, boring day. I also had a lot of negative emotions yesterday that I usually don't really feel. I was very angry and stressed and was ready to give up.. not that that's even an option. I was able to vent to my mom and on a message board and that helped a lot. I'm feeling much better today both physically and emotionally. The blood transfusion has seemed to help a lot; I have more energy today than I've had probably since my first chemo. I also did a lot of thinking and praying.. and venting, and I feel much more like myself than I did yesterday when I was so angry.

Tomorrow I have a CBC to make sure that the blood transfusion is bringing my levels up appropriately. I also have an ultrasound tomorrow afternoon to measure my tumor. I hope that the tech or doc will give me the measurements, but if not, I know my onc will next Wednesday when I see her.

Hope everyone has a great long weekend!

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