Friday Night News

Happy Friday Night! Day 15. Trish is still feeling pretty good today. She kept busy, walking to the gift shop with her Mom today. She said bought a magazine and said she found some recipes for me to try with the boys. I made two home made pizzas tonight and the boys had other plans. They stayed after Lacrosse (LAX) practice to watch the school's No. 1 rated baseball team. So much for my guys night with pizza and the Gators basketball game. Guess I know what they'll eat for breakfast.

The boys lost their LAX game last night, but Matt scored three goals. Andy pummeled a few kids on the other team with his crushing defense -- both were hurting this morning. Next game is at Nova on Monday night. This weekend should be good -- lots of work to do before we drive up to Baltimore next weekend, but we should get some R&R too. Sandy and Ed (our neighbors) have invited us for dinner Saturday night. We'll catch a hockey game courtesy of Kelly and eat at Trish's sister's house on Sunday.

Enough about us at home....Dr. Griffiths came by Trish's room for a visit tonight. She said the preliminary report on the bone marrow biopsy looked good, but the report isn't finalized yet, so we can't celebrate quite yet.

The other thing Dr. G said was that while other folks may get out when their counts recover to a certain level and get outpatient services -- Trish will not. Trish couldn't explain it to me (I have an email in to Dr. G), but Dr. Karp said Trish would not get out till they were ready - the guesstimate was another 21 days. I don't know if that means that they think they will have the transplant ready very quickly and they don't want her out where she might catch something or what.... That's good and bad. Bad for insurance purposes, but good for transport and care purposes. Hopefully we'll have something more on this and the biopsy by Monday.

It's half-time and the Gators are up by 21. I'm hoping we can beat this thing just as well as the Gators are currently beating Georgia. Everybody seems optimistic, but there are so many little things that can go awry along the way. We know a lot of you are wearing out your knees praying and we appreciate it. Thank you.