Day 65 from Bone Marrow Transplant..

Well today is day 65 since Eric's bone marrow transplant day! Eric had his chemo on Tuesday and it seemed to have knocked him down a few days and now he is starting to feel a little better- like most chemo he will start to just be feeling back to what he was then it's time to start chemo again on Tuesday. Eric's first treatment went well on Tuesday but by the evening he was extremely tired, had a really bad headache. He had to take pain medicine round the clock, the next morning on Wednesday woke up to a bad headache, nausea and vomiting but after a few days that subsided and back to feeling a little better. He still has the fatigue but that is expected with the bone marrow and additional fatigue with this EBV virus he has now.

Eric's counts are good his white cells are 5.8. hemoglobin 9.7, red cells 3.06 and his platelets went up for the first time in 2 weeks to 33 so that is good maybe this chemo Rituxan is already getting to those B cells and this EBV virus that was they believe making his platelets drop all the sudden the past 2 weeks. Eric is eating better 2 small meals a day which is good. They want him to increase to at least 4 liters of water to help his kidneys which has been hard to get him to do but we are working on it! We are still on track and hoping to get home for Christmas and Chelsea's 16th Birthday! We have alot of making up to do with the kids so we sure hope we can get home by Chelsea's Birthday- we have missed so much already.

We are getting excited for the kids to come down in a few weeks for the week of Thanksgiving! I can not believe it is already Thanksgiving! In my mind it is still summer we left down here to start this journey on May and I feel like we have lost time, days, holidays! Thank you so much to all of you who send your love in letters, cards, pictures, treats, gifts! We love to hear from everyone and Eric loves to hear the wonderful letters and words of encouragement. It really boosts his spirits and keeps him going.

The Lord is a constant power of strength for us and we know he is guiding our journey. We feel of his constant love and support as well as all of you and know that we will get through this! He never said it would be easy, only that it would be worth it!