Good weekend

Brody's procedure went well-- the only "issue" we had after was that he had some blood in his urine again. We were concerned about his platelets again so asked them to draw labs (CBC and BMP)--- and to also bump up his IV fluids-- our concern was the different contrast he had to take for his procedure and imaging can be hard on his kidney.

His labs came back real good-- his Creatinine which had been as high as 1.4 to 1.5 last month has been trending down. Was .80 on Tuesday and on Thursday night was down to .70. By Friday morning his urine had starting to clear up and looked pretty clear by Friday night. Creatinine is a "lagging" indicator of kidney function so it might take a week to see if it is continued to improve or the blood in his urine was indicative of a problem---we are hoping he was just passing some clots from his earlier issues.

Brody has felt good (other then a head ache on Sat night that passed quickly)-- and has been eating and drinking real well. He has put on some weight since he has been off chemo for 5 weeks now and weighs about 50 pounds now (up from his usual 44 to 46 pounds).

We put the swimming pool up on Sunday and after replacing one small patch on the side and letting the glue dry-- we started to fill it up yesterday morning--- takes about 30 hours to put 5000 gallons in the pool.... hopefully it will warm up quickly and we will get some good use out of it soon.

That's about it for us.

Bill