March 18th

Dr. Caton is back!  YAY!!!  We love Dr. Caton.  He is a no nonsense, take no prisoners type of guy.  He lays it all out on the line and then we discuss.  It's so nice!  He was away, as I mentioned before, for a 360 mile bike race in Texas.  Well, he was ahead of the pack by 15 minutes!!! OH yes...in first by that much...most likely the race was over!  But at mile 277, in the middle of the night, he lost his eyesight!  He said it's happened once before and they thought they had figured it out, but it happened again.  His wife was standing about 6 inches from him and he couldn't see her!  So he had to drop out of the race.  SUCKS!!!  But he had fun and now he's back and we are happy to have him.

Oh, and his eyesight did return, by the way.  He's good to go on Mark's care!  :P

Mark got his special platelets late late last night.  I think they finally put them on the pump at like 1:30 this morning.  Low and behold they worked!!  From 8 -12 over night!  YES!  He got another round of them today and three more units of blood.  He's feeling really good today!  His eyes have gone almost back to normal except for the bruising.  No more swelling.  And he said they are starting to itch and in my experience that's a good sign!  

His hair is really coming out now.  He pulled out a huge clump earlier.  So, my mom is bringing up my clippers tomorrow and we're just gonna shave it off.  He's making a mess with it otherwise...there are little brown clumps everywhere and that's just gross!  I'll make sure to take one more pic of him with hair and then a shot of him right after.  Y'all thought he looked weird without facial hair...just wait!!  LOL

That's about it for Markie!  We treasure these good days.  They are wonderful.  He's so sassy!!

We got an amazing group of pictures from a member of his crew at work today.  They had a luncheon in his name today.  These people and their love for Mark continues to amaze and overwhelm us.  Every day there is a message from at least ONE member of his crew or another co-worker (usually more) and they are so positive and so supportive.  We are blessed indeed.  A huge thank you and big ol wet kiss to all our Allvac Family.  You guys rock!!!