Round 6!

All is well! Joe started Round 6 of his chemo on Monday. Today, the results of his blood draw showed that his counts are slowly sneaking back up. Very good sign. Speaking of counts and good signs, many know that Joe's dad went through a period of very low platelets. Well, he had his blood drawn on Friday, and everything is normal! Yay for that.

Either next week or the week after Joe will be spending a day at the hospital getting all kinds of fun tests to prep for his transplant. We should find out soon what day the test are scheduled.

We had a nice visit from Joe's med school friend Arun over the weekend. He just returned from 6 months in Iraq. It was so good to see Arun and hear all of his stories.

That's about it for today.

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Happy day!