Day +38, only one day until SUBWAY!

Thankfully things are still going ok. Adam had another outpatient visit that went quite efficiently today. He only needed one of his preventative treatments, IV, because his blood counts, particularly platelets and haemoglobin were all looking nice today. His platelets had increased since last Wednesday, which is fantastic, and hopefully indicates that he may now be making his own platelets. We will have to wait a bit to see whether the red cells continue to hold on their own. His white cell count and neutraphil count had also increased, which was cool too.
Adam has also been a bit brighter for the last couple of days and although he is still very lethargic he is a little less 'flat' ....... if that makes sense. Thankfully his temperature has remained stable, and his blood results today indicate that his drinking is still serving him well, as his renal function indicators are ok.

But what Adam is most excited about is that our oncology consultant has said he can stop the 'clean diet' a day early, at day +39 instead of +40. This means that he can have SUBWAY, which for Adam is very exciting. He has been hanging out big time. The 'clean diet' is a low bacteria diet, similar to the Low Listeria diet pregnant women should follow. There are a few of Adams favourite foods on the list, obviously SUBWAY (which needed to be avoided due to the precooked chicken and salad bar aspect), but also Camembert, pate and sushi. We may wait a few more days for the others, but we will not get away with not having SUBWAY for lunch tomorrow!!!
On the weekend we did some serious sleeping in and Darren, Marian, Matthew and Alexander (at various times and not all together) made good use of the warm weather and headed to the beach and local bath to swim, baby surf and snorkel. We also managed to get out Saturday night for some pizza in the park. Adam even took a little walk to the beach front late this afternoon as the weather had cooled significantly and the crowds with it. The waves were certainly pretty impressive today and we did not spend much time in them, too big and nasty, not fun.

We are taking each day in our stride. We have said it before but we do really appreciate your prayers and ongoing love. Thank you.

Marian, Darren, Matthew, Adam and Alexander