Hello to both of you, Wilmasdaughter and Dick S.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my post and respond.
Talking to people that are either in my dad's shoes or mine makes us a "unique" and "weird" team, don't u think?
I am sorry for the dealy but I haven't seen your replies. I assumed that I would somehow get notified when a new post would be published -via email- but I guess this is not the way this forum works. That's ok, I should check in more frequently on my own!
Our latest news have been posted here
http://community.lls.org/message/136380#136380 so you could follow the link for an update.
You are absolutely right Wilmasdaughter when you say that I should keep myself together alongside with my father. Although he has been remarried and his wife really takes good care of him, I am his caretaker too in many ways. We work together so I act as the "pillow" and take the punches so that he will only get the good news (i.e. yes, we got paid, yes business is doing fine...etc) but I don't mind. I am young and patient, he is older and less patient. Even a month ago, when MDS was not part of life, these were or roles of the game!
And yes DanS, it is a fact that every patient is a different case study (yours is a really optimistic one I f I may say so and I am so happy to read about your promise to your wife!) and at the end of the day statistics are there not only to be verified but also to be proved wrong.
For today, all I can be happy about is the fact that even after medication his blood tests came back much better...HCT is 27.4, Hb 9.0, RBC 3.140.000, WBC 13.800 (actually that is the reason why he got Granulokine, to increase his WBC) and PLT 68.000. Tomorrow is a new day and we will have to take one step at a time, won't we?
Thank you both so much!
Warmest regards
Irini