Moving Forward

Well, it has been longer than I would have liked to have been since my last post. Oh well.
My journey with ITP continues on. Currently, I am still on a high does steriod to increase platelet levels. I have been put on a four day, ten day regiment. I take the medication for four days and then I am off for ten days, then repeat. It is evident when I am on the medication because my platelet number increase dramatically, like today I was up to 38,000. But when I am off the medication, like last week, I was down to 5,000. So, the fluxuation is showing that my body is not stabilizing higher numbers. I head to Abbott in the Twin Cities this Friday with another consultation with a different oncologist/hematologist. Hopefully he will be able to help figure out something. As of right now, I am thinking/trying to cox the doctors into not doing surgery for now. I am looking into different types of treatments methods and which one I should try first, I know that almost sounds really bad. So, hopefully within the next week or so, I will be starting an additional treatment to the steriods. Being constantly tired is getting really old, but there is nothing that I can do about that. I just feel like an elderly man when I am worn out by seven o'clock in the evening.
Things are moving along around the farm. Filled the bin on Saturday. Despite the cooler temperature, it felt good to get back on the tractor and pull gravity boxes down the road. :) The cattle trailer is finished being painted! Wahoo! It looks relaly nice, well I didn't take much from what it looked like before...haha! Dad and I got the decals and DOT striping on the other day. We pulled the longer strands of electrical wire yesterday. So now, we have to just install the lights and then splice them into the other wire. Shouldn't be too bad. Then we have the flooring and the plastic to install yet. So, there is plenty of work to be done, hopefully the weather will let us finish it before it gets too cold out! Weaning is about three weeks away. It's been so wet with the rain...and now snow, that I haven't been able to clean out the calve weaning area. Hopefully it will dry out soon so that I can get the pen ready. I would have weaned by now, the calves are really doing well, but my last calf was born Aug. 5. So , I want that calve to stay with its mom for a little longer yet. Dad and I are hoping to put up extra cornstalks this year. Twofold reason being hay wasn't overly abundant this year, so we'll need extra feed sources, and hopefully we'll be able to sell some for a little extra income.
I continue to work for the City of Hutchinson. I am almost complete with my time with the Parks dept. but then I am being transfered to the Streets dept. Not sure how long I will be there, possibly a few weeks. I have recently accpeted a seasonal position with Syngenta Seed bagging seed. Not sure when this will start, since it has been slow getting the seed out of the fields. And now with the inches of snow that fell today, I am sure that it will be longer yet. But once again, God has provided employment and for that I am very grateful for His faithfulness!!

Blessings