Let the summer begin!

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend! We spent the weekend in Connecticut visiting friends and relatives. On Friday night we joined Matt and Maureen for a barbecue. On Saturday Christine and Ron invited us for a great Italian meal. Steve and Josephine were kind enough to let us stay with them in Branford Ct; we toured around the Branford waterfront and had lunch at an outside marina restaurant before driving home.

I ‘ve been feeling better and better each day, now that my Doctor took me off the Velcade infusions and cut my Dexamethasone in half down to 20-mg a week.  This reduces my visits to the Dana-Farber to 1-day a week. It’s been 10-days now since the changes in my medications and my lightheaded dizziness is almost completely gone. The past weekend is the best I’ve felt in over 2-months. My blood testing results from last week came back this morning and my numbers look great, many are at or very near normal counts.

I finish my 4^th cycle of chemotherapy tomorrow and then have next week off to rest. I’m scheduled to start my dental exams today in preparation for my stem cell transplant. All dental issues or potential problems need to be rectified before my transplant to eliminate the potential for any oral infections. I start my 5^th Chemotherapy Cycle on Monday June 13^th.

Chemo Ken and the Red Dogs…