Thursday Update

First round of tests are complete...It was a long day today. I woke up at 3am to help Aunt Mar take her friend to the train station. I didn't mind, really enjoyed visiting wih her friend and didn't want either of them waiting at the train station alone in the middle of the night. we than started Trish's IV early - about 6am, because we had to be at the hospital by 8:30am this morning. We knocked ou the MUGA scan, blood tests, chest x-ray and EKG today.

Tomorrow we knock out the CT Scans, more blood tests, bone marrow biopsy, spinal tap/lumbar puncture, and a basic physical exam.

Monday is a TB test (luckily Trish hasn't been on any planes with Atlanta attorneys lately), surgery follow-up.

Wednesday is a TB test reading and Pulmonary function tests (not a lot of fun) and we should know the results of the bone marrow biopsy by Wednesday too.

If everything goes well, we expect that we can fly home as early as next Thursday and be home through June 27 or 28th. Trish will need to be back in Baltimore to do the consents on June 29. She'll have her PICC plucked out and a Hickmann Catheter put in on July 1st or 2nd. Her admission and pre-transplant chemo would start on the 4th of July. I'm sure she will be seeing fireworks once the chemo starts.

And how is she feeling? She still has a lot of pain from the surgery but it is getting better. Mostly it just hurts out of nowhere and brefly, but judging from her face, it really hurts.

Keep the prayers pouring in, we are not out of the woods yet. God Bless and thank you for all your support and help. We could not survive this without you!