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I finished the chemo up Sunday morning. And I met with my leukemia doctor, Dr. Keating, Monday morning. We tried to fly out Monday afternoon but got caught behind a massive 900 mile weather front that swept through Texas and the mid-west. So we spent the night with my brother and sister-in-law in Houston and got out Tuesday afternoon.

The chemo had an immediate effect, although not total, on the nodes. It takes about three weeks for the chemo to run its course, so there should be more progress to be made. Plus they gave me a steroid by the name of dexamethasone which they used before to successfully beat back the disease.

So I hope that in about three weeks we'll be trying the second transplant. I will be laying low in the meantime to keep from picking up any more bugs. So, ya'll are not going to see much of me. No ballgames for me except what's on the tube.

I still haven't heard from MD about the transplant schedule, which makes me a little nervous. You get a little paranoid after going through all this and having the multiple delays.

I'm sure I'll have to have some blood and platelets later this week or early next week since the red blood counts get hit so hard with this particular chemo cocktail. I've already started daily Neupogen shots to get the neutrophils (neutrophils are the white blood components that fight infection) up.

That's the news at this point.