There is good news about the engraftment process, but I am getting really bored with just sitting around here.
Cancer Is Like Riding A Bike
Have you ever ridden a bike 7 miles? Ever done that in the cold, uphill the whole time,while hungry and exhausted from riding 70 miles just before the uphill. Seeing friends give up and get off their bike because it’s to hard. That is what cancer feels like.
Please read this story about some very brave and selfless friends of mine whose months of training and preparation will be put to the test in a few short weeks.
So, Do You Come Here Often?…
If you do come here often, then I suggest you seek additional forms of entertainment. For anyone who had become used to my frequent but irregular blogging back during the Cancer days, you might think that my blog stopped working, or that I forgot how to type, or maybe even that I had died and … Continue reading »
Century Ride in Lake Tahoe
It’s been a busy, busy time since I last wrote. And I will apologize in advance for the length of this entry, but if you have enjoyed my blog in the past, I encourage you to take the time to read this entry. May was a month of loss, and June opened with my bike ride around Lake Tahoe.
Sep
07
Bone Marrow Transplant – Day 13
This is Angela, Dan is feeling too weak and tired to write so he asked me to update the blog tonight. Dan is in what is referred to as “the basement period”, where his white blood cell counts are so low that they cannot be detected. The normal range for white blood cells is from … Continue reading »
Sep
04
Bone Marrow Transplant – Day 10
Hard to believe I have been in the hospital for 10 days. Have not seen my real home in 10 days, not driven in a car in 10 days, not done anything really normal in 10 days. Although strangely it does not seem like it has been a terribly long time. I think that is … Continue reading »
Aug
18
Tell the Fat Lady to Start Warming Up…
I am ready to enter the next and FINAL phase of my cancer treatment. That’s right, I am not due back to the hospital at Emory Winship for any reason at all for the next 10 days, and when I do go back, I will have my bag packed and be checking in for the long 3 week visit to complete my bone marrow transplant. There is some irony here though.
Jul
19
Got One Over on that Dirty Bastard
On Saturday I underwent the stem cell collection stage for my autologous bone marrow transplant and harvested 3 times more cells than were expected! The doctors needed a minimum of 5 million cells, and would have preferred 7 million cells, so the entire team was elated when I gave them 17 million stem cells for my autologous bone marrow transplant. Read more…
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