December 14, 2010 10:45 PM

A downturn!

Not for me, but for my mother-in-law. Her platelet count is going down and her blood pressure is all over the place. So, bright and early tomorrow morning, we'll go down and see her and talk to the doctors to see what's up and what's next. It's been a rollercoaster ride up to now over the past almost three weeks. Hopefully we come to a successful end of the ride.

As for me, no change. I take my meds as prescribed and each day one at a time.

It's funny though. I was talking to my wife today and saying that this whole experience seems, at times, to be so surreal to me. Of course I would never get leukemia - that only happens to other people. And, even I did have it, I never really suffered enough to make it seem that anything was out of the ordinary. About the only concession to the disease has been all those trips to the doctor over the past two years and that period of 'House arrest" lat year.

Otherwise, the disease certainly hasn't affected anything that I do which seems to further lend credence to the fact that it's not a part of my resume. I do attend the monthly Leukemia And Lymphoma Society group meeting. Here again, everyone is so upbeat and positive that it makes it more like a social gathering than a group consultation session. And that's the way that it should be.

Time to draw to a close for today especially with my mother-in-law's status up in the air at this point.

Time for more prayer...

Bob