Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:10 PM, CST

Ah...........the sweet smell of creamed corn! We are so happy to have that wonderful aroma! Mark had 6.8 million of those little sweet stem cells infused about lunch time. That gives him 21.02 million in reserve. We are so blessed! Mark was in rare form today. He is so swollen (topping out at a 31 lb weight gain in 4 days) that he he kinda waddles around so he has had lots of comments to entertain the staff and other patients. He even had a special request from one of the other patients to come to his room for some of Mark's entertainment!
We were in the room with Tom and Debbie, as he was getting his stem cells today also. It was so nice to get to visit with them. Debbie and I went to the cafeteria to get hamburgers for us and the guys at lunch. Mark says they are the best and a very good value. So we pigged out and tried to ignore the cream corn fragrance.
There is a nice Oriental family at the clinic and the gentleman that is the patient turned 80 today. His sweet daughter brought cup cakes for us all to share -yummy (we ate dessert first!).
He sure does look great to be sick and 80!!
The nurses are so great and johnny on the spot to take superb care of everyone. They are angels.
Mark was given Benadryl to prevent any reactions to the transplant so he is now snoozin in his chair. His fluid retention should begin to get better now.
Sorry we were premature wishing Aunt Jimmie Faye a happy birthday. Now everyone knows and she should be well wished!!No excuses that anyone has forgotten.
We are praying that Mark's cousin, Larry, test results are still cancer free! May God be with he and Sharon as they are now at MD Anderson.
Thank your for your prayers. God is caring for us.
Love, Karen