All right already! A guy doesn't do a blog entry for 6 weeks and everybody is ready to send him to the gallows. I thought the old saying was, "No news is good news." Plus, I've been shoveling snow nonstop for 6 weeks. Now that the normal Denver winter is back (60+ degrees today), I guess I don't have an excuse anymore.
Emily is now back from England and she and Anna have gotten reacquainted quite quickly. Emily was very excited to get back to the land of Milk and Honey. She said the snow in Denver even made the news in England! Fortunately for us, Emily's memories of the M*A*S*H unit of last November have all but faded completely away.
My mom is already scheduling her flight into Denver to help for that first week or so after Jo's surgery, which is still set for March 21st. My father will pick her up on his drive back from Arizona to Minnesota for the summer.
Jo and I head out to the NIH in Bethesda on February 26th and Jo will have another bone marrow biopsy on the 27th. We will now only be required to go to the NIH once per year. Hopefully we will get some good news about the "miracle drug" that is supposed to take care of Jo's red blood cell problem.
Jo's red blood cells have actually been low for the last week or so and Dr. Alvarez is considering a red cell transfusion later this week. He called her into his office today for fluids and she has to go back tomorrow and get more. We are not 100% sure what the fluids are for, but they may very well just be to make Jo feel a bit better. Low red cell counts also mean fatigue and Jo has definitely been feeling run down.
As for that new left hip, it feels great according to Jo. The range of motion she has in her left hip right now compared to her right hip is amazing! She says it really does feel as good as new and she cannot wait to get the 2nd one finished.
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We're all looking forward to seeing what Bionic Cuban Motion looks like.
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