A Weekend Update

Thanks to everyone for the generous Relay for Life Donations! We're making great progress on our agressive fundraising goal, and your support is much appreciated. For those who were thinking of donating, I've placed a link on the right side of the blog. Thanks again, you guys rock.

It's been a few days since I posted, but happily there isn't too much to report. I say happily, because in my case "boring" means no infections, or host of other things that could possibly go wrong. I'm feeling pretty good, relative to how I've felt in the past weeks. Alot of people ask if I'm feeling back to normal...I'd say I'm at about 60-65% of a normal feeling. I'm able to eat pretty good, and have gained about 6-7lbs over the past 2 week, which is good. I've been walking, and XC skiing (read walking with skis on), for up to a couple of hours now. I still sleep quite a bit, and don't have much strength, and still am on a neutropenic diet (nothing raw, no eating out, etc).

All in all, I'm happy with where I'm at, and am making progress back toward normalcy (albeit not that fast). I've got another doctor's appointment Wednesday at Sloan, there I'll get my counts checked, and a chest Xray to make sure I don't have pnemonia, or anything else brewing in my lungs.

I had mentioned to some that I'll be restaged after being out of the hospital for a month, but I was wrong about that, they'll do a whole restaging process (PET, CT, etc) once I get to Day 100 (June 3rd). So there won't be any cancer related news until then, which I'm fine with, no stress :-)

I'll leave you with a nice picture I took while walking around on the ice up at Paradox Lake, it was a beautiful spring day.

-Jeff