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and really, not much has changed. The clinic today only took 3 hours and Lori is now my babysitter. She is a quilter so tomorrow we will tag team the Ella quilt and hopefully get that pieced. I got platelets again today.


I am still happily eating along, though I did lose the Mexican food from Monday night. I knew that was a risk but I dared. I'm definitely still relying on the steroids for womit control. However the blood sugar has settled down quite a bit. We started measuring it more often so we could see what it's doing. Of course I have been eating regular for a couple of weeks now so it might be adjusting to the new intake.


My appetite is coming back and I'm actually beginning to wish for certain things to eat. Dinner things. Non-sweet things. Totally unlike the last few weeks. Soon I will be gaining weight and I'll have to lay down on the bed to zip my jeans.


I got a pedicure monday--did I mention that? A wonderful invention, pedicures. When I was young, very young, I sat on the floor at my Granny's feet and gave her pedicures. Of course I had no knowledge of the name of what I was doing but that was it. Soaked her feet, trimmed her ingrown toenails, tidied up and polished. I can't reach my feet properly to work on my toes so I think a storefront you can walk into and get this service for a little bit of cash is just wonderful. (I have made progress on reaching my feet because I can put my socks on by myself.)


And that's probably enough prattle. I'm still scheduled for a bone marrow biopsy on Friday. I'm still scheduled to see a doctor on Monday. I won't have results of the biopsy for a few days. We are most interested in the chimerism--the degree of donor and host cells in there.


Finally these are the grandkids' Halloween costumes in here. Ella was a strawberry and Harrison was DJ Lance Rock (look him up.) He was very cute because he totally gets the dress up and act like someone else gig. His 2nd birthday is in just a couple of weeks!

~Cathi