Brief update 6-20-2022

Howdy all.

It’s been a few weeks since we last updated the blog, so I thought it would be appropriate to post something today just so you all don’t think we’ve abandoned this blog.

 

May, June, and July are brutal months for the Yerkes household.  So many birthdays, holidays, family, etc. so we have been a little preoccupied.  Thank you again to all the birthday wishes, I’m truly humbled.

 

This morning, we both woke up thinking that today was going to be Lauren’s last biweekly infusion at the clinic, however we ran into a little snag that prevented anything from happening today.  I’m confident we have mentioned in a previous posting, but before Keck medicine does any injection or infusion of any medication, they always perform a blood panel to make sure Lauren’s numbers are within an acceptable range.  Today, her liver numbers were a little elevated, so they ultimately decided to postpone the chemo treatment until tomorrow, assuming her bloodwork comes back more normalized in the morning.

 

Lauren has been doing exceptionally well with chemo and she continues to have minimal side effects, but we are always on edge because we just don’t know if something may make her feel ill.  Her white blood counts were low last week, making her more susceptible to infections and ultimately brought her energy levels down, so we kept last week mellow but otherwise she’s been doing good considering.

 

We will meet with Dr. Vandermolen next week for another exam/measurement, we hope.  We met with the nurse last week and she mentioned that the current chemo meds Lauren is on are the toughest of all meds, so when Lauren moves to weekly treatments with a different set of meds, we are hoping things will be easier but then on the flip side since its weekly Lauren will just be more tired.

 

Overall, we are both just taking each day as it comes, we knew that there would be times where we’d walk in with one intention (like today) and come out with another, so we’ll just move through each day as it comes and trust the doctors and nurses are making the right call.  We’ll take today as a positive that 1) they were monitoring her and 2) that we get another day of Lauren feeling well and enjoy this VERY hot Monday!

 

We’ll share more soon, all my best,

 

Chris