DAY 2 - 11/9 Morning

First good news. White count has dropped from around 56,000 yesterday to 34,000 this morning. So Chemo is starting to kick some major butt!!! (quoting his doctor). Dr. Kocs has a good site on the type of leukemia Matt has (better than the American Cancer Society one, if you are interested is reading more.)

Last night was the roughest so far in our stay. Matt was up with major anxiety issues, rightly so, for about 2 hours. The nurses are wonderful. Sandy, our night shift, was great at trying her best to talk about if all with him. Matt admits that he had issues prior to this in building up things in his mind bigger than they really are. How he connects the smallest thing into becoming a natural disaster. So imagine how compounded that has become in here. So Dr. Kocs and Matt, have agreed to a longer lasting drug for night time to help keep him calm and stop his mind from wondering so much in the night. We have stressed to Matt that when he works himself up for two hours it's like major stress for his body to recoup from that kind of outbreak. So we start new meds tonight that should help.

He is starting to feel physically worse. Hot flashes, nausea, headaches. Smells are already bothering him some. Again, nurses say just to buzz and they will come in and take care of that type stuff immediately.

Continue to pray for good results daily. Each day will be filled with ups and downs. Right now the ups continue to win. Pray specifically for peace in opening up Matt's heart to accept our Lord. He is in the blame game and is doubting everything spiritually right now. So peace for tonight would be a blessing.

Again, thanks to so many people for all you have offered in prayer and kindness. I hope your day is a good one today. Love to you all.