I went in for bloodwork this morning and my favorite lab tech was working which was great. Whenever she draws blood it is painless and it is a nice experience. As we were chatting she asked me how things were and contrary to what Mel says I told her things have sucked the last couple of days. She told me that she felt for me and that I was one of the happier and positive patients that she sees. Mel always thinks that I tell everyone that everything is awesome even when it is not. I got a call early in the day, which is not normally great. My absolute neutrophil count (ANC) levels were 0.45 which would indicate that I am at severe risk of getting sick. It would explain why I felt so crappy the last couple of days as my body could have been trying to fight something off. They were concerned that I might have a fever now or had one this weekend. I told them that I was awesome, though it is possible I had one and the Tylenol that I was taking has masked it. The neuropathy in my feet sucked last night but I think it was due to the blankets and the pressure on my feet. I am going to try something tonight and see if I do not use a thousand blankets and lighten it up if it makes things better. I will be having my schedule modified and next week I will be going in for treatment. It seems that my body absolutely does not like having 3 weeks in a row and I have it changed almost every time. I thought that I could have survived the treatment and not gotten sick, but with absolutely no immune system it seems like quite the risk. We were planning on going to Toronto next weekend but we will go this weekend instead to Ikea to pick up the last of our stuff. We also need to choose our couch and then things are starting to look good downstairs.
Xavier had his hockey game out in Capreol and when he does not play we have nice chats on the drive out there. Mel had seen a deer on the side of the road and slowed down enough that if it had come out onto the road it would have been a light tap. Last night we had told him how he was an old soul even as a baby. When he spoke he used proper sentence structures and when he asked if that is how we spoke to him we told him yes. When he was young we spoke to him exclusively in either French and Cantonese. We figured that he could pick up English on his own afterwards. When Xavier was young he had a ridiculous amount of self imposed rules. I have mentioned some of them in the past, but his sense of responsibility was a bit much for such a young child. Even today his back was sore and we had told him he should miss practice to allow it to heal and he was quite hesitant about it. His coach texted me this morning and I decided to just flat out tell Xavier that he is not going today. It is a decision that he would struggle with. Growing up Mel had told Xavier that since her birthday was around Christmas sometimes she would not always get gifts. He asked her if he could move his birthday and Mel had to tell him no. He is one of the most difficult people to shop for because he does not care too much about objects. I think that I might get each of the members of the family their own Zeroll 4oz ice cream scoop. We are missing the 3oz size as well so I am going to try and get that one. There is the possibility that Mel ends of divorcing me after this stunt, but I think it is worth it. At least she will have her own ice cream scoop, the downside is I need to find a new caregiver as good as Mel was. I think that it is important for families to have 9 ice cream scoops, kind of like how we need 12 Yeti’s that are the same.
We started to order some things for downstairs and we will go pick some of it up in Toronto this weekend. Xavier will be going with his girlfriend so they can shop at Vaughan Mills mall on their own and we will go about. We were having some discussions on food options but I am not sure if we have decided as of yet. I know where I would like to go for dinner and we want to leave by around 6pm so that we can his girlfriend home not too late. Mel and Xavier have been moving things around downstairs and they may have put the Smith machine now in the proper location. This week should be normal as my tastes are pretty good at the moment. I think that with this break it will make next week easier as well, which is a good thing.
Mach