Tuesday March 1, 2011 4:45 PM

This will be a quick post- not much new to report - Ed is much more comfortable and resting and dozing pretty much a lot of the day.  This afternoon, we took a brief walk to just outside the front doors of the hospital - he was anxious to get a breath of fresh air and feel the sun on his face.  He was pretty tired when we got back upstairs.

Ed's white count has plummeted in response to the chemo - expected - from 12 on Sunday to just barely over 1 today.  The nupagen shots will help kick his white cell production "factory" into overdrive hopefully in the next few days - in the meantime Dr. Menco has imposed a "mask" rule and asked us to curtail any non-essential visitors until his count is up.  Ed has to wear a mask and so does anyone who comes in the room pretty much including the extraneous hospital staff like cafeteria people and cleaning crew, etc.  Doc says I don't need a mask because he says Ed and I already share the same germs, but no more hugging anyone else for a while either.  It's just a precaution - we don't need him getting any type of infection or cold or anything right now.  Lots of hand washing and anti-bacterial foam going on here and he's just gonna have to settle for getting bored with me for a few days.   

Ed is sleeping now so I'm going to try and get a little bit of office work done and update my spreadsheets with the medical insurance stuff and his lab test results, etc. that I try to keep up with every day.  We're happy he's resting comfortably and able to sleep - he has some catching up to do!