Ups and Downs...

Hans, Elle and a bunch of the neighbor girls had a big waterballoon fight last week or so, this was one of the only pics I caught.

Just sharing a shot of some of Hans and my favorite spring flowers. I am loving these big poppies that keep on blooming:)
So over the past 48 hours we've had some good news and some bad news. I am only hoping they come from the same root cause. Thursday morning Hans woke up at 5 am wincing in back pain. I dosed him with Oxycodone, gave him a hot bath and a heat pack. He's been dealing with the pain ever since. I quickly came to realize that it could be from the stem cell infusion! I'm very relieved that our doctor backed up this theory as the most likely cause of this new back pain. Hans' labs yesterday supported the theory. ANC shot up from 0.00 to 800! The white blood cells are the first cell line to come in, especially with the boost of the Neulasta shot last Friday. But - the platelets dropped to 3 and HGB dropped further to 9.3. We decided to go ahead and bring him in today for Platelets. The Day Hosptial was booked so we got our bag of platelets in the waiting room. The PA checked out his back, but she didn't say a peep about it. She seemed to endorse the theory of back pain so much so that she didn't seem to think it needed to be checked out. I figured why not have someone look at it since we were down there?? I am just plain wiped out after getting home tonight. I am not sure why - but I usually do get pretty wiped out by driving in to do much of anything at CHLA. Picked up a pizza and hopped right into jammies when we got home at 6:30! I guess I've done as much as I needed to do today.