I went to the hospital yesterday (Friday) for my blood testing and outpatient infusion therapy. My platelet levels continue their slow and steady climb, but the red blood cell and hemoglobin counts are still down, which makes me very, very lethargic. My wbcs, which had sagged below normal, zoomed up to above-normal levels after my neupogen shot on Wednesday. That will come down since it's artificially induced. In fact it may already have come down, but we won't find out until Monday because (drum roll and cymbal crash, please), they've given us the weekend off! We have to do the home infusion thing both days, for which they gave us all the supplies, but the great thing is to not have to be in the hospital bed in the ambulatory treatment center for four hours. We've already done today's infusion, and we're both getting more comfortable with it. Today was the first time we've hooked it up without a nurse overseeing things, but it all went okay. We're thrilled that they think I'm doing well enough to let us have so many days off already. We'd had the impression that the first two weeks out of the hospital would require going back there every day.