Hit the road jack and don't you come back no more, no more...

Ok after my earlier Beatles reference I felt compelled to come back with some sort of musical title today....

Trish will be discharged sometime this afternoon! She is no longer Neutropenic (neutrophils and white cells above 1000 - as of this writing still waiting for the print out to update the charts on the counts page). This will hopefully begin a 3-4 week period of IPOP visits, which will hopefully lead to our coming home to Florida. No promises, things change fast in this world.

They also discontinued her growth factor shots today. That's good for two reasons: 1) Trish's legs were begin to have sever deep pain - they say this is from the over production of cells that the shots are designed to cause, since blood is produced in your bones as it over produces it hurts your bones as they fill up and 2) because I won't have to learn how to give her the shots. I am really good as vomit, diarrhea, I can inject in a central line and give IV Meds, and other issues, but blood and shots are not by specialty.

Trish's Mom and sister are up and I may let them stay with Trish tomorrow. We need to tires on the van for the drive home to Florida, so I'll probably run out to Costco so that, that task is behind me.

Hopefully, you will all get to read a bunch of very positive posts in the next couple of days. Trish should be in the hospital room till about 3 or 4pm if you want to call her there. TRhan we will be at the Hackerman House and on our cell phones.

I want to make a special shout out to everyone who rose to the occasion in the last 2-3 weeks. Trish really needed some special encouragement in the last few weeks and you all came through in spades. We know that there are also lots of you following along silently and in prayer. All of this support is appreciated and so critical, more than you will ever realize.