No Stopping

We woke up to a light dusting of snow here. Very pretty. I took a photo of our house with the snow, but much of it had already melted in the front yard. Nice to get snow before Thanksgiving; it gets me in the mood for the holidays.

We spent quite a while at the clinic yesterday since my counts were all low. My hemoglobin was 7.9 so they gave me 2 units of packed red blood cells. My platelets were back down to 15,000 so they gave me one bag of platelets as well. My white cell count was down to 0.3, but I just have to wait on the bone marrow to recover for that to come around. That tanking up really helped with my fatigue. I did get to visit with my friend Gail, who works at the DCRI in the same building as the clinic. It was good to catch up, and she made the visit go by much more quickly. That is always nice when I'm there for 5 hours like yesterday.

After the clinic appt, my Mom and I went to Costco to load up on ingredients for some holiday baking. Mostly I needed pecans, dried fruit, eggs, etc. They sure do have alot of stuff, and we only came home with a little bit of stuff each. Well I'm set now for all the pecan pie and sweet potato-pecan casserole that we have to make over the next week.

Mom made fried shrimp from Brian's local catch for dinner last night. It sure was yummy. That is always my birthday dinner at the beach so it felt like my birthday again last night.

Oh yeah, I titled today's entry No Stopping because I was able to run my entire 3 mile loop without having to walk. I even did the route that has the biggest hill (not an Asheville hill, mind you). Anyway, that's progress and most certainly helped along by all the blood I got yesterday.
Photo: Mom cleaning the shrimp