Reclaims its space

The little boy has flown away. He is still in the air, somewhere between Delhi and Paris where his bapu awaits him and then will fly again back to St Louis and his life. For the past 2 months or 60 sleepies - sleepie being the way Agastya counts time - he was with us. I realise this morning that he and only was able to push away the other elephant in the room and aka Zozo aka Hodgkins and make all of us forget the Damocles sword hanging on our heads. However, even before the little chap could pack his bag and fly, Zozo reclaimed its place, lest he be forgotten. Yesterday a visit to the good doctor charted at least the week to come.

For those of you who are always asking for updates on the chemo here is the latest bulletin: WBCs dropped to an alarming 1.9 - I say alarming because I even got an SMS from the lab - on Friday. Monday morning the WBCs were up to 2.9 but the haemoglobin dropped one point. Two Grafeel injections today and tomorrow, blood test on the next day and if all goes well and the counts behave then on Friday the 23rd the port will be placed first and then the third chemo. In between Ranjan will have to visit the hospital for a PAC (pre anaesthesia test). Then more waiting for Godot, Godot being here the side effects if chemo, and more injections and blood test. So that is the situation today! It can all change if the counts don't behave.

I have my life charted for the next 4 months at least.