Thank you all for your kind comments and advices. It really means a lot to me. My dad feels a bit better in the third week of therapy after the adjustments of transfusion quantity and after the body just got a bit used to it and to thalidomide, I guess. The main problem was the sugar level after the steroids kicked in, but hopefully he will get used to it too. For now he tries to control it as much as he can naturally ( as he did before therapy), walking a lot after the meals, etc. He still feels a lot of back pain though. He also take his pills at night. Thank you all again,
Best wishes for everyone,
lara
