Tomorrow we begin our journey beginning with high dose chemotherapy. We will spend about 6 hours in the clinic having an infusion of Melphalan, Wednesday Lee receives a second dose of chemo, thursday is day 0, with the transplant of his own stem cells.
They tell us the preservative that the stem cells are frozen in will dissapate out of his system over the next week with its own set of side effects.
We anticipate a multitude of side effects, for that reason we will be back to the hospital every day for tests to monitor his situation and I think just to keep him moving and to keep him out of a germ infested hospital they try to do everything outpatient. There may be times when he needs to be admitted, dehydration, infection etc. Your prayers right now on Lee's behalf are greatly appreciated.
We intend on spending today trying not to think about tomorrow. (we spend alot of time trying not to worry about the future) Right now Lee is rowing on his rowing machine which we both intend to use for the next month. We are trying lots of different activities to keep in shape the best we can. We have great faith that things will go well. We know that we are in Gods hands no matter the outcome and that he is mindful of us.
We are trying to finish the Christmas shopping today, and the rest from the internet.
I'll start my cookbook later this week, and will post receipes later on.
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We love you guys. Mikelle picked up her elmo phone this morning and called grandma and then looked all sad and said "Mama didn't ans." (grandma didn't answer). I thought it was kinda funny.
We love you and are thinking of you daily. Our prayers are with you.
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