Day 50 June 6th

My good friend who lives near Kansas City was my sitter for the majority of the week. We went to school together from first grade all the way through high school! And have stayed in touch the remainder of the time. Mary Ann's mother lives only minutes from Mark so we had some nice time to visit with her mom ("Aunt Ruth Ann" to me) also! Ruth Ann is a still quite youthful  and sharp witted in her 92nd year!!.

I learned this week that my stem cell report looks good with signs of nice engraphment. I also learned from Dr. Champlin that they had to cancel my DLI (Donor Lymphocite Injection) scheduled for next Friday. For unknown reasons the donor T-cells that were reserved at the time of the transplant were not growing correctly and I won't be able to proceed with a clinical trial with a new medication for GVHD. I was a little apprehensive about the pending procedure that's goal was to give me a small degree of the GVHD but could have given me the raging type of GVHD as well. So I am taking the outlook that it was God's plan for me to NOT have this at this time!

Another thing that REALLY upsets me is that I was told by my doctor that I need to wait another month before I can safely visit with my baby brother, Greg who lives at a nursing home. I miss him sooo much and I love giving him kisses and receiving his kisses back!

I continue to be grateful for the blessing of my healing and feeling so well this soon after my transplant. Praise God!