Liver functions are still improving.....

[Uben]

...which is good. That means the chemo is working. However, this morning, her WBC count was getting dangerously low, putting her at risk of spontaneous bleeding. The Neupogen has not built her counts up sufficiently, so they gave her a platelet transfusion today.
It was given around lunch, and when I left at 6:30 pm, she looked a lot better. The chemo doc said the platelet counts can actually improve overnight with the transfusion, and it was possible she could come home Tuesday if everything works out. I took that with a grain of salt. I would love to bring her home, but not until she is ready and healthy enough to do so.

They had given her the news before I arrived this morning, and she was kinda down this morning after having trouble getting help pottying last night. She didn't look well this morning (well duh!), but after I gave her a shower and washed her hair and her sister dried and curled it, she was feeling and looking much better and ate a good lunch.

For a 60 yr old woman, she has the most beautiful head of shoulder length blondish hair, without a hint of graying. It'll be a shame when she loses it, but her best friend sent her a $1500 wig she had bought for her own mother who died of breast cancer before getting to use it, and she will be excited to see it. I don't know how long it takes for her to lose her hair, but I am assuming she will since the chemo is a systemic treatment. I have washed her hair twice since the chemo and nothing is coming out yet. I haven't looked up the Taxol/Carboplatin treatment to see how long it takes, cuz it doesn't matter really.

I do appreciate your responses to my posts, but don't feel compelled to do so, as I am really doing it for myself as much as anything.
I starting keeping a journal since the first day of radiation treatment, writing something each day to document her journey, and I am kinda doing the same thing here. It really does help.

Uben