Today things are beginning to look better. They have given Eli a couple of treatments of a protein and some blood along with some lasik (?) to help him get rid of some of the access fluids in his body. He really looked like a little Michelin baby for a couple of days. Today he is still swollen, but it looks better. His genital area is not as swollen which seems to be hurting him less. Again, the docs aren't sure if he will swell up again, hopefully not. The dermotologist came by yesterday and recommended a topical ointment to put on the itchier areas, which seems to be helping.

All that aside....his counts are up!! We are up to 163 ANC, which is higher than we have been in a month. His platelets and white blood cells are up too. Hopefully we will find out on Monday that we can move into Consolidation and that means no more chemo until he is at 750!! His hemoglobin is down, but they seem to think his blood is "diluted" because of all of the access fluids in his system.

I am still reading my book. I hit one amazing quote about how the body of christ is called to show God's love when He seems not to. The emphasis the author had here was seems. He talks about how CS Lewis commented that after his wife died it was his community that helped him to connect to God while he felt he could not....until he reached a point where he could again. That is truly how I feel and it was really something to read it in a book

My prayer today is that he continues to improve and be comfortable and that maybe we can be home by Valentine's day!!