Arthur is back and Mark has gone home to his family. I appreciate him staying with me last week but his family is excited about his return home.

We went to the hospital for blood work this morning and the results were very encouraging, for a change. My platelets were 42,000-up from 13,000; my hemoglobin is 8.5-up from 8.3; white blood cell count is 3.1-down from 13.8 (normal is 4.1-10.9). I will be back at the hospital Tuesday and find out if I have been able to maintain that level. My body also needs to start making platelets and that will help stabilize the number as well as increase it to the level I need to be able to be released and go home.