Feeling a Little Better

Jeff is feeling much better now than he was last week at this time. His rash is pretty much gone and he's now down to 100mg of prednisone per day. At this dose, we won't have to worry nearly as much about his blood sugar, and the other side effects should also lessen considerably. The steroids do make him very hungry, and even though he can't taste much yet, he's been eating like a horse. The labs that were drawn on Wednesday looked pretty good. His platelet count is still very low, but he's making enough to avoid an extra trip to Hershey for a transfusion. There were no immature cells in his blood stream, so we have hope that the biopsy (to be taken Monday) will show that Jeff has recovered in remission.