Happy New Year

Prepare to be amazed!  Today was our weekly Bone Marrow Transplant clinic appointment.  It was on Thursday because they were closed, except for emergencies and inpatients, for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.  Eric's hematocrit is now 30.6!  This is incredible news.  It hasn't been this high for over six months, except for a couple of hours after each blood transfusion.

Also, we were told that Eric is doing so well we can skip next week's appointment and start going every other week.  This is huge!  Those early morning drives to LDS Hospital once a week were tedious.  As 2013 came to a close Eric and I reviewed our daily journals and day planners.  The abrupt change in our schedules between May 29 (before the cancer diagnosis) and May 30 ( the day Eric's primary care physician tested his blood and told him he had something severely wrong, probably bone marrow cancer) is startling.  Cancer takes over your life!  We have felt spoiled only going to the BMT clinic once a week.  Next week will be the first week in over six months that we haven't had Eric's blood tested or had to go to a cancer related appointment.