How platelets are formed

Back from a terrific vacation at Glacier National Park. We stayed in a handicapped accessible cabin in the woods just outside of Whitefish Montana, with Lynn's Aden cousins (Tom and Donna, Mel and Betsy, Marilyn). This hardy group of adventurers had been with us in Alaska for the occasion of Deborah and Lynn's 35th anniversary and they were on hand to celebrate our 40th with the Glacier Park tour.

We drove into the park three days running, took a tour with the Red Buses (got a van with a lift instead of the classic Ford busses), and enjoyed seeing a bear and a few goats.

The last night, when the Adens had gone back to CA and Chicago, Lynn and Deborah spent the night in the very Tyrolean Many Glaciers Lodge in the national park - enjoying stars from our balcony and a great sense of being part of history in this 100-year old lodge.

Plans were to return to Portland with a day of rest and then resume chemo treatments. But once again, the lab work said Lynn didn't have the right platelet counts to be confident that the chemo treatment would be successful. We were psyched for this round of chemo - timing all this treatment to maximize strength and endurance for some fun family occasions. Instead, we're doing what we can to increase platelet counts and enjoying company of friends and family. Lynn's ability to laugh has been enhanced by all this it seems. He and niece Alexay are watching Airplane, and from what I can tell there's something funny every 15 seconds!

click here for a 8 minute Silly Platelet Video (1 of 3)