Relaxing Saturday

Saturday was relaxing. We slept in and had a great night sleep at Aunt Mary's. We went into Hopkins for a blood test, that was a quick painless visit (keep reading for results), than we met my college room mate Scott Rubens, his wife Mary and two twin girls Kaitlyn and Laurel at the National Aquarium in downtown Baltimore. This was a great day. It was fun roaming the aquarium with two excited wide eyed girls and great to hook up with an old friend. It helped take our minds off of why we are here. Of course, we received an email from Dr. Griffths while we were there and the news wasn't great -- while Trish's blood tests had been holding steady for a week, they had dipped again Saturday. Her white count is now under 1000 (920 to be exact). She needs to be very careful between now and Tuesday to insure that she doesn't catch anything that could delay her treatment. Speaking of treatment, she will begin upon admission on FAT/Shrove Tuesday....the interesting thing about this is that she should get put back into remission in about 40 days if everything goes well -- which means Easter. This gives us all a good tracking method of her progress -- I have to thank Aunt Mary for this analogy. I don't know, though, I could think of other penances I'd rather be doing for Lent.

Look for more later...in the meantime here are a few pictures from our Aquarium trip. Hey Mary how did you manage to stay out of the pictures?