OCTOBER 1

Gary has been out of the hospital for the second day and it has been wonderful. Yesterday, we took a short walk in the neighborhood. The air was crisp and cool and leaves on the trees are starting to change. It was lovely. Gary made the comment that it was so nice to be outside walking. I said, it was nice just to see him walking! Today, we are back at the Clinic (and Internet) for blood work to be done. When he left the hospital, his creatinine levels were still up so he will need to be checked for that twice a week until we see the oncologist on the 14th. The dismissal summary from the hospital related all that was done the two weeks he was there. At one point Gary had acute renal failure. That was a shock to me. We knew at one point he was bad and his kidneys were struggling, but did not realize that they considered it to be renal failure. This is the reason they are waiting two weeks before he sees the doctor and has the second treatment. His kidneys need to heal. The summary said that they would probably lower the dosage of the methotrexate for the next treatment. Which, in my mind, means we will probably be here longer than 6 months. So, we will enjoy our two weeks together and pray that the next treatment will not be so hard to go through. We appreciate so much the prayers and encouraging comments, phone calls and emails.