For the first time in like forever, there’s no more rain in the long-range forecast. Which of course was no help to us this morning, as Kevin and I managed to get in a wet ride that ended with blue skies.

As was the case last Thursday, we got about halfway up Kings before having to put on our rain jackets. Not too cold, with the temp only briefly fluttering to 39.8. Wet, messy, and once or twice I caught myself thinking, is it really sensible to trust such skinny tires descending at 30mph in the rain, when some of our customers won’t do more than 25 when it’s dry?

Not a bad lab report! With the amount of stress I’ve had lately, I was expecting to see higher platelets, but looks like they’ve stabilized and my hematocrit is improving as well. This time around I also requested a CRP test, which is a marker for inflammation and correlates very directly to thrombosis risk (strokes, heart attacks and blood clots). Quite nicely surprised to see it below 0.1, basically below the level of detection. No downside for it being abnormally low. Only good.

Doc tossed in a few more tests I wasn’t expecting, AST & ALT & Bilirubin, which look for liver and kidney issues. All good.

So things look boringly stable and reasonably good for now. Unfortunate that the med I take to keep things that way also drops my power on the bike by about 8%. Hate that!

So living with a mild bone marrow cancer is, for me, just that. Living.