Happy New Year!

Steve will be ringing in the new year with a new phase of treatment. Tomorrow, Jan. 2, Steve will be admitted to the Maine General Hospital in Augusta for five or six days to begin his second phase of treatment. He’ll receive chemotherapy every-other-day: Weds, Friday and Sun. Then, he’ll come home and recover for three weeks and then do it all again. It’s very possible that he’ll develop fevers due to the chemo lowering his white count and have to be readmitted at times to give him antibiotics.

We decided that since this phase of treatment requires a lot of inpatient and outpatient visits, we wanted to be closer to his doctors and treatment facility. His doctor in Boston was very supportive and encouraging with this decision. We like the staff at the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer and glad they'll now be leading up team buxie. 

It is a big relief to both of us to not have to make frequent trips to Boston during the winter.  

He received the results of his bone marrow biopsy, and it confirmed that he is in remission. The work ahead during the next few months is to keep things that way.

Unfortunately Steve strained his back last week moving a couch! He was feeling so fit that he decided to surprise me with an extreme makeover of the tv room/office space. But he didn't take into account how much a month of laying around a hospital bed weakens your muscles. This setback has been a hard thing to deal with especially since he was feeling so well and knowing that soon he will be back on the chemotherapy.

But he is feeling and moving better now.

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year. I won’t bother with clichés like if you have good health  . . .  it goes without saying!