Moral Fabric

Well, last night I started back on Xeloda. Over the week off, things have improved significantly.

My hands are better, not great, but better.

My blood test showed improvement in virtually all categories, except for platelets, which dropped from 77 (bad) to 73 (worse). Having said that, my mouth sores did get better. A week ago, I was waking up looking like Dracula with blood trickling out of my mouth. That is not happening right now, anyway.

We are working on the platelets with many approaches. Beet root juice, papaya and a few other things did not seem as helpful as we hoped, but a new fix is in hand. The research manager learned that papaya leaf extract has improved platelet count for many and fairly quickly. I began those capsules last night also. It will be exciting to see the results at next Tuesday's blood tests.

Speaking of blood tests, yesterday's was exciting for me beyond the blood test results. Since it was a finger prick test this week, I was given a Snoopy bandage and, lo and behold, Snoopy was playing tennis, I could hardly contain my excitement. I mentioned it to a few people, but they did not seem that impressed. I think the blood technicians believe that I am crazy. They may be right.

One interesting thing this past week Someone at the club is moving and had a large amount of fabric that she wanted to get rid of. Someone expressed interest and she brought the fabric to the club. I asked if she had any moral fabric. She thought I was questioning her character, but I told her the moral fabric was for me. I hope she believed me.