So glad I'm here

Since arriving in Chicago, I've not had much computer time. Over the weekend, I was busy at my Dad and Carol's visiting and tackling some small household projects. Monday and Tuesday I was on-site at a client's all day. My work schedule for the rest of the week will be more flexible--I was supposed to go on to New Jersey but it looks like the client wants to push that visit out until the end of next week.

It is so great to see my Dad. Really, he's been doing pretty well. The extra week they gave him off chemotherapy did him good. He still spends most of the day in bed, but we've been able to do some nice visiting at meal times. Carol reports that his eating the past several days has been as good as it's ever been since starting therapy. And he's in excellent spirits.

Yesterday, he had another round of chemotherapy. In addition to waiting a week, they reduced to dose by 15%. Dad felt relatively good yesterday, but that is typical on a therapy day (and the day after) since they give him some extra steroids prior to treatment. The pattern thus far is that he starts feeling the effects of the treatment a couple of days after. So we'll see how it goes this time.

The encouraging news is that his PSA is down to 19. Pre-treatment it was 111. That is an excellent response. It's been a very rough go for him, but at least he is responding to the Taxotere (not everyone does).

It's been very spring-like so far -- yesterday up around 80 -- and I'm just getting ready to go over to the Botanic Gardens for a run.