What a Beautiful Weekend!

Wow this week we have still been on the roller coaster! (an emotional one that is).
Kurt had still been very lightheaded and was going out most of the way or all of the way quite often. We went to the clinic on Tuesday, and they told us that his liver counts were slightly down again. They told us his platelets were also down, but the liver counts we want down, and the platelets we want to go up, I know it's so confusing! They wanted us to come back to the clinic on Friday to check his platelets again. Wednesday and Thursday were very discouraging for us. Kurt could hardly stand up without having to sit back down, and if he did start walking he can only go a few steps before having to sit again. We were worried about this as well, so I called the cardiologist that we had seen a couple of times and asked if there was something he could do for this. He wanted to see Kurt, so we arranged for him to come down to the clinic to see Kurt on Friday. He did a ultrasound on his heart again, and told us that his heart is working well, the heart muscle is still a little thick, but probably because of not getting much exercise due to his weakness from the steroids. He said that passing out was not life threatning to Kurt, but just annoying. He told Kurt to exercise as much as he could, and also to eat as much sodium as he wanted. So now everything I can't eat, because I have high blood pressure, Kurt can have all he wants. I think seeing the heart doctor and hearing what he said helped Kurt feel a little better, in fact that night we went to Texas Roadhouse and got our dinner in about 20 minutes and just ate in the car. It was great for us to be on a date and it was much quieter than being in the restuarant. Then on Saturday, we drove up to DayBreak lake and sat on our chairs fairly close to the car and ate a picnic. Ryan and Cher came over and helped with some things in the yard, so Kurt was able to see the boys from far away. On Sunday we went for a ride up the canyon to see the leaves and take some pictures for Kelli of her family, so he was also able to see her kids, and that was great for him. I think getting out of the house and being somewhat normal has really lifted his spirits. So it has been a great weekend and we are trying to do what we can to make things a little more normal. Hopefully they will start decreasing the steroids this next week, and that would make us both a lot happier.
Thanks again for the calls and love from everyone. This is going to go up and down for a long time, but I do see that he is improving. We really appreciate all that has been done for us. Thanks again!
Cindee