11/08/04
Finally,
We had our appointment with the BMT doctor today, and the lucky winner is:
Danny
We left two messages, hopefully I can tell him before he reads this. The procedure is as follows:
If he can make it here quickly, like Thursday, he will have a blood test to rule out any odd possibilities, then given an injection a day for 4 days to build up his stem - cells. He then donates blood; no pick-axes, no pneumatic drills, just boood, and then he gets to go home. I then start a regimen of chemotherapy and then the blood is transfused. I then undergo blood tests for abot 100 days, then I go home, rest another month or so, then go to work.
As you can imagine, my smile goes ear to ear. When I left the hospital in St. Louis, I had 100% blasts in my bone marrow. I now have 24%, and the head of the department, my BMT doctor, says it's still a go.
Prettty good news, we're off to celebrate at Cold Stone Creamery, one of the best ice-cream places we've found.
More as I hear it,
Dad and Terri
posted by Dad @ 4:05 PM
3 comments
3 Comments:
DANG,,,and Tom was sooo looking forward to the drilling..on Danny of course. ;)
WHOOHOOO, now we can breath, Oh, and I did love the movie about trev,so, what blood type is Tom? did they say, he says he really doesn't know. Chris, I know the next few days are going to be less than a picinic (think yogi bear) so if there is something we can do let us know asap. Tom and Connie and Kat...oh, and my son Tommy sends his hopes and prayers as well, I just got to spend a few hours with him while he was in port in San Diego, now it's back to Hawaii,,poor kid.
This is just the best news! Three cheers for the good cells.
You're right Chris....Stone Cold Creamery is the best. I think we should all have a visit there in your name.
Love you both,
jk
It's jk again. I copied your message and forwarded to Ann and Irene with the location of the site and that they could leave comments. Well, I guess I wasn't very clear about that and Ann sent the comments to me.... so here they are, pasted and forwarded to you.
hi to chris and terri
this is ann kniefel and have been following your progress. the news sounds enouraging
and our prayers are with you. joe and kathy will be here after thanksgiving. we are
looking forward to that. chris we will be thinking about you and hope for the best possible solution to this terrible nightmare that you have been going through.
love to all ann and family.
As you can tell, you have no privacy....
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