We had a wonderful weekend as a family and it was a great time with the best family around.

After dialysis, Dr. Shorie made his visit for this week. The first thing he asked me was when I was going to get blood. I told him I was to go in this afternoon for testing and was sure they would order it for tomorrow. I wanted to wait until Wednesday because of prior commitments tomorrow but he said absolutely not. He has written orders that I have taken to my oncologist stating that I am to receive transfusions when my hemoglobin drops below 9 and it is to remain at 9 or above. He said people with dialysis also have heart involvement and when the hemoglobin drops too low, the heart is made to work overtime to compensate. Another words, it is trying to do its job but it cannot and it just wears itself out trying. He said when my hemoglobin drops then I am a walking candidate for heart failure. When it was tested today, it was 7.4 and the platelets are 13. I am to go into the hospital at 8:00 in the morning for transfusions. When you are on dialysis, you are a different breed.

I know after the transfusions, I will feel better and have more pep.

I also received the results of my Free Kappa Light Chain and Free Lambda Light Chain with Kappa/Lambda ratio. I know this is something new I am throwing out to you and will study more about the results and report it in terms we all can understand. Sometimes it takes me awhile to understand it well enough to share the information.