11/21/04

Greetings,
Meghan came by last Thursday and left from Hobby on Sunday, Danny arrived a hour before Meghan checked in and left for St. Louis. We had a great time with everyone, introduced Meghan to my doctors and a few of the really good restaraunts in the area. Amazingly, we introduced Dan to some of the same restaraunts.
We had Dan's blood checked, and there was a problem with the test results, so tomorrow I start chemotherapy with Mylotarg, the same chemo drug that dropped my blasts counts from 100% to <20% when I was given it at St. John's in St. Louis. After that, I start a search against an MUD file, matched unrelated donors, that has already produced 5 potential donors. Luckily, we change insurance companies 12/01 which will help with the $12K search. With the very real potential of remission, a bone marrow transplant has a far greater rate of success of totally curing the cancer.
We are on our 22nd day of rain in a row, and we just say the forecast for between 2 and 4 inches tomorrow. Yippee!
We also start living in our free apartment this coming week, our email will stay the same, and the cell phone number 314 265 6846 will still work. It will save us $4K for the three months we get to stay there. We have the option of renewing our "lease" so we may be able to have 4 or 5 months free rent. It's a nice 4 room apartment fully furnished, so we'll be fine, and there's a local free shuttle to the hospital, so we'll save parking fees at the commuter lot.

I'll post again as soon as we hear more, this blog spot has had its problems recently.

Chris and Terri