11/22/04

Greetings from Alkek Hospital, MDAnderson Cancer Center,
I'm admitted, the rooms here are awesome. I have cherry wood floor with honey oak inlay, awesome food, and floods raging throughout most of Southern Texas. Our section of Houston is not yet under water, but Wharton, TX, got 15 inches of rain in 24 hours, and is mostly under water. People here went through the warmest October, and now the wettest November on record.

I start chemo early tomorrow morning so the doctor can follow the infusion. She's pretty excited about it.

We're not supposed to use the cell phone in the room, so the number here is 713 745-8673. I'm in green 1237 on the 12th floor and should be out of here early Wednesday morning. Mylotarg is normally given on an outpatient basis, but because I've had one bad reaction, she wants me in patient.

Everything seems to be going very well, except that we miss so many people so much. We're afraid that Ryan and Christy will have T-Bone riding a bicycle before we get back there, if they're over their colds, that is. (T-Bone doesn't have a cold, so he MUST be the culprit.

More later as we learn it, send life-jacketes!

Chris and Terri