Dutch Wonderland

Family

Our kids have been with their cousins at Grandma and Grandpa Coddington’s this week. They love being in upstate NY. My parents have lots of property and are surrounded by farmland. We met them at Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster, PA last night. It’s their yearly pilgrimage at the end of the week. The weather is supposed to be good. We might post some pictures later.

Kidney

Karen and I went to the my weekly doctor visit in Philly yesterday. My creatinine and hemoglobin are just hanging out at 1.4 and 11.2 respectively. That’s just fine with us. We’d like to see them move and likely they will, but for now it’s fine.

The great news is that I got off two meds, including Coumadin, and I went down on another. I seem to have had another minor bleed internally (on the surface and not dangerous). It was enough for my doctors to decide it’s time to get off the blood thinner. In my opinion, the even better news is that I am down on the steroid Prednisone. I am down to 25% of what they started me on. The steroids are tough on my body, physically and otherwise. They affect my behavior and I am broken out everywhere. I am hoping the lower dose will have less side-effects.

Thanks for reading,
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PS – Uncle Steve beat Dakota in chess, but in the second game which they were not able to finish, Dakota gave him a tough time.