Dan is cleared to go back to work!

Monday, Day 8 of 63, is a pretty good day. Today's goal was lab work, hydration and bleomycin. We got to sleep in a little since we didn't have to be at the hospital at any certain time. , well I slept in - Dan was up at 4am as normal. I dropped Dan off and went to the commissary to buy gallons of gatoraide. The nurses warned us that certain foods or liquids would taste funny or hurt during chemo and they are right. Dan normally loves water and drinks a ton of it daily but since midweek all it does is burn his throat. Luckily lemon lime & orange Gatoraide taste wonderful to him, Go Gators!

For those who like lab work, his spreadsheet is updated with the latest and greatest. His red blood cells didn't dip to badly (day 10 should be the lowest point for them), hemoglobin only down to 11.3 His white blood cell count actually is very high, 19.9, so his body is sure working hard to fight this cancer. Based on his lab work he is cleared to work half-days (~4 hours) for this week and next week. He still needs to be very careful and avoid crowds or anyone who is sick during this time. But slowly over the next 2 weeks his energy level and counts should return to a normal level, just in time for round 2.