Blood work today

Dad had is regularly scheduled blood work today and his white blood cells are great (above the normal range), red blood cells are just short of normal, hemoglobin...just short of normal, but his platelets are pretty low. I looked back at round # 1 of chemo (in Jan.) and actually his platelets dropped the second week after chemo (and this one is the second week after round #2) so maybe it's not a big deal. He didn't see the doctor this time, but he did get the go ahead to have both the PET and the CT scans tomorrow morning. If the doctor decides to do something about the platelets, it would be Friday...or tomorrow afternoon. His platelet count is 58.4 (normal range is 150-450).

Added note: the doctor at the Med. Center was wanting Dad to take a sleep apnea test. Apparently they are trying to screen more people for this. It isn't a required test from the insurance company, so Dad determined that it wouldn't make sense to have a test like that now. If he has sleep apnea that is the least of his worries. And it's not like he's going to try to get used to having more freakin' tubes hanging off of his face, looking like elephant man...with a c-pap machine...while going through more chemo and a stem cell transplant. We sent an email stating Dad's feelings on this and the doctor said that it was ok for him not to take the test. Dad wonders if they have any other tests in mind....I won't mention what tests Dad thought might be possibilities! So anyway, Dad stood his ground and said...in the words of an idiot from Alaska..."Thanks, but no thanks."

So onward and upward...tomorrow morning we'll be to the hospital at 7:30 (hopefully no snow storm to accompany us!) for the scans. We should have results by tomorrow afternoon and I will be posting that information on this blog as soon as we hear the results.