Jan 15

Deb spent the night and slept really good, maybe I ought to take that chair/bed home! LOL! I'm sure Deb would appreciate that! LOL The doctor told me that I should put a mask on and do some walking to get ready when I go home. I only walked for 15 minutes and I got a little sore, my knees. My counts went up today, white is 1.0, hemoglobin is 11.2 and my platelets are 122. That is really good news cause it means I'm that much closer to going home. I have a small area around my Hickman catheter that feels and looks a little sore. It first showed up right after they put the catheter in but it looks like its getting a little larger and more red. The doctor is keeping her eye on it. Deb left about 1:30 to meet with the AC/Heating man. I sure hope they can fix it today, our house is cold! My brother, Dan is going to turn off the water to the cooler so we don't have to worry about that for awhile. The doctor came in today and told me that when my white counts go up to 1.5 she'll let me go home for awhile, even if its tomorrow. Wow, that sounds good! This Wednesday it will be 4 weeks since I've been here. That seems like a long time until you compare it with 40 years in a desert! Can you imagine traveling like they did back then? That's a lot of walking, we don't like to walk from the parking stall to the store anymore, do we? Do you ever think what it will be like to live in a place with no more death, or mourning, or crying, or pain? Sounds like a great place to me!!! That's what living with God will be like (Revelation 21:4)!!! The heater guys thinks that our coil is just very dirty, from not cleaning or changing the filter enough. My son said that I should have been replacing my filter every month, well, that didn't happen, so all of you out there learn from my mistake, change your filters every month! Dan is going to clean our coil and hopefully this works. God bless you all and thank you for praying for us!
IN HIS HANDS,
Ernie