Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:37 PM, CST

Day Eight after transplant and Mark is feeling it. He is tired and sleepy plus his bones are aching. We know all this is part of the treatment but it doesn’t make us like it any better. He will soon rebound and hopefully be released to go home by the end of next week. All his swelling is gone and his lab counts are where they should be at this time. Everything is at the bottom! (Or in the dirt as he says) Little, growing Stem Cells take a lot of energy.

We are anticipating ice, snow and cold as are many of you. Hopefully most of us will have only a small amount. The golf course guys have covered all the greens with huge white tarps - must be some special grass???? Funny looking - like it has already snowed. We have one long river bridge to travel over on the way to the clinic. Our nurse said it is usually salted so it shouldn’t be a problem - they gave us supplies just in case we can’t make it in. A man in the grocery line told us that Kroger usually sells 500 gallons of milk as day, Tues. they sold 1400 and yesterday 1600. I don’t know if I believe that but if it is so, there are some tired cows out there!!

Platelets were the treatment of choice at the clinic today. Everyone we knew got a unit! If your count goes below 20 you get treated to some. Tom had a bad reaction to them last time and we are praying that he is okay tonight.

Wrap up and stay warm!

Love, Karen