Gone

The Neon is gone. I left it at the body shop and drove home in the freshly fixed up Miata. It still smells a lit­tle like paint on the inte­rior. They did a nice enough job and they also took out the two small dings on the right rear quar­ter panel that I have put there over the years. As a side effect of the paint blend­ing process, a cou­ple of scratches dis­ap­peared as well. Spent a hour or so once I got it home putting all the junk back in the trunk (and glove box and cen­ter con­sole…) While the Neon wasn’t a bad ride for a while, it sure is nice to get the car back.

The Nue­pogen is gone. Donna had got­ten one shot of it on Mon­day at the doctor’s office, the com­pany nurse give her the next two on Tues­day and Wednes­day. On Thurs­day she went back for a blood test and the results showed that after Monday’s low White Blood Cell count of 2.5, the WBC was back in range at 4.5, but her platelets only rose from 1.0 to 1.8 and still remained a cou­ple ticks below range. So she got neu­pogen dose #4. We had another oncol­ogy appoint­ment this morn­ing, with another blood test. The WBC was now over the top (10 is the upper limit of the range) at 11.4 and her platelets were up in the nor­mal range too. She fig­ured she was home free, nope, the doc­tor wanted her to get one more. The good news about that was, he then didn’t need to see her again until next Fri­day when she is sched­uled for chemo treat­ment #2.

The hair is gone. Started to come out last night and there was lots more hair in the sink this morn­ing. Tonight after sup­per we went out onto the back deck and I used my beard trim­mer to cut Donna’s hair down to an 1/8 inch high. We then came back inside where I shaved her head. It may have been falling out, but it was still very thick. I used 4 Gillette Sensor3 razor blades. Now all she has is a five o’clock shadow. I didn’t want to try and make it baby bot­tom smooth because her scalp had taken enough of a beat­ing get­ting to where I got it.