Still hiding out

Steve's counts are a little better and a little worse. His white blood cell count is up to 2.0 today from 1.5 Thursday. His neutrophils are down even more, 0.6 today from 0.8 Friday and 1.0 Thursday. And that's with three days of neupogen injections, which are supposed to stimulate neutrophil production.

So, he needs to continue to stay away from people in general to avoid germs. He'll have repeat labs on Wednesday. And he can't start chemotheraphy and Accutane tonight as planned.

He's also easily winded. Any activity -- walking from one room to another, taking a shower, mildly interacting with Katie and Cooper -- wears him out and makes him short of breath. If he develops a cough or is short of breath when just resting, we are to page Dr. M right away.