day 157 Happy New Year!

hi everyone!  hope you are all enjoying your new year's day.. we are!  mom asked me to take her on a "quick" shopping trip to return a few items from christmas and check out the sales.. 4 hours later, i had to drag her home!  she's getting back to normal!!  we had a great day and she's now resting while we're getting dinner ready. 

mom and dad are off to buffalo tomorrow for monday's bone marrow biopsy.  if all goes as planned, mom will have the procedure done around 9am and will be heading home by maybe noon-ish.  mom was hoping they'd just start course 3 monday, but Dr. Wetzler said they'd have to wait for the BMB results which most likely would come wednesday or thursday... so the plan is to start course 3 on next monday. 

course 3 will be 28 days long, then we're on to the stem cell transplant.  we don't know exactly how all that will pan out, so as we get information, we'll share with all of you.  mom's hoping she can start the stem cell transplant immediately following course 3, but we might have to wait for her numbers to go up. 

mom's had such a great visit home.. she's continued to get stronger and she's been doing a lot more to take care of herself.. it's amazing to see how much progress she's made! 

thank you for checking in on us, continuing to pray and follow the blog and for the uplifting cards that you have all been sending. 

we would like to make a toast to all of you.. here's to a year filled with love, health and happiness, to friendships that continue to grow and to a cure for mom.  cheers.

love.