Halloween Spectacular Edition

Here's to hoping Heidi's hair grows back pink

It's Day 27 if anyone's counting (I'm not).  Heidi's white count is up to 0.5.  She now has a non-zero ANC of 10.  Yay because it's non-zero; damn because it's still below 500.  It's all up to her bone marrow at this point.  It's a good sign that her counts were at zero for so long—it means the chemo drugs did their job.  The way they are creeping up slowly isn't good or bad.  According to the docs the rise in blood counts is just unpredictable. 

Our latest plan to get outta this joint is to get evicted for being bad residents.  Halloween provides the perfect backdrop for dressing and acting goofy.  For me, goofy is a synonym for annoying. 


All Halloween'd out





We started by putting on wigs—Heidi looking stunning in pink and I getting many comments in blue.  Then we went on a walk up and down the hall.  At first I was planning to just tie balloon animals out of rubber gloves (see photo above) and hand them out to the nurses working in the hall during our walk.  But then, thinking that wasn't quite annoying enough to get evicted, I put two balloon gloves inside my shirt.  The wig made me do it.

I've gotten kicked out of many
places for much less than this



I did manage to hand out 5 balloon animals during our 30 minute walk.  A chicken, a turkey, a punk with a mohawk, a hand with elephantiasis, and a scary jack-o-lantern.  Chuckles the clown ain't got nothin' on me.



The coup de grace for getting evicted was to borrow bunny ears for a provocative photo.  Heidi thought this extra step wasn't necessary.  I call it attitude enhancement.