Welcome to Day 1

Good morning!

First and foremost, thank you. Each and everyone of you. Thank you for your e-mails, calls, prayers and good thoughts. The day was just too much to respond back individually. I hope to make a dent n responding to folks later this week.

Remember the toast from last night? It didn't last very long, she threw it up as I was packing up. She looks GREAT this morning. Though she still has a headache and nausea.

She's alert and busy trying o keep food down. She should have two days to reset and feel better before they send in more cytoxan (chemo drug). The cytoxan she got Sunday/Monday was designed to clean out her marrow and prevent it from coming back. The Cytoxan she'll receive on Friday and Saturday is designed to help prevent graft vs host disease. They be giving her this dose at Noon instead of 4am and it will not have steroids in it like the first dosing. They should also do a better job of helping her sleep through it this time thanks to our friend Dr. Griffiths.

Speaking of which, Dr. G came by later today to insure she would see me as well. It was a nice visit, it always is. Trish and I think she is going to lean towards lab and research work, but if you ever becomes an oncology attending - I would definetly recommend her if ou found yourself in need of one.

Later I will explain what we are waiting on and what we can expect to see now that the transplant itself is done. Everyone we know that has been through this has said the transplant itself is a non-event. In many ways they are right. It is however a critical milestone. It is a new beginning in so many ways. It is probably the only event one can experience that truly makes the popular phrase of the 70's ring true: " Today is the first day of the rest of your life."