Last call... and tomorrow morning should be the big move

The words "last call" seem to make my mouth water. Must be a weird Pavlovian thing.

I don't know how that Jerry Lewis guy does it. I ask for donations 3 times in my life and feel bad about it. Tomorrow (Thurs) morning is the last day to raise funds for Kathleen's run this weekend. Here's the note she sent out to her regular supporters. So, once again... just give her a couple bucks if you can afford it. If you do donate, then your next drink is on me... which hopefully will be soon. What a great opportunity... donate to a good cause, get a tax deduction, and a free drink with me. Once she gets out of here and gets settled, I'll definitely be heading out one night to throw back a few cocktails. I'm overdue. Maybe something towards the end of next week. We'll see. This will be the last time I ask for donations for a while. I promise.

As of now, it looks like she'll make the move tomorrow (Thu) morning. This afternoon, the doctor actually gave her the option of going home late today or first thing tomorrow morning. She chose to go home tomorrow morning. She felt like it would have been too hectic to go home today. So she'll get one more night's sleep here and then get discharged in the morning. It worked out well, as she was able to see a bunch of the nurses before going home and I think that meant a lot to her.

She received some preliminary results from the bone marrow biopsy and they were good. When they did the bone marrow biopsy the first time (30 days ago when we started this), her bone marrow was "packed" which meant they couldn't extract fluids. The packed condition was caused by an abundance of Leukemia within the bone marrow. Now, it is no longer packed, which is the way that bone marrow should be and they were able to extract fluid. So, that part is good. We still need the actual results, but there is definitely an improvement there.

Her energy level and spirits have been great the last day or so. She's been doing laps and back to her normal chit-chatty self. Right now, her biggest discomfort is where they did the biopsy, which is a dramatic improvement over where we were last week. Emotionally, physically and in every other way, I think she's ready to get out of here... lets hope the transition out of here is smooth. Next week will be hectic as she'll need to do outpatient type stuff every day (Mon-Fri). So, we'll have a bit of back and forth to the hospital. After that the schedule slows down a little bit, but we'll still have chemo and other outpatient appointments for the next two years (or so).

I hope that I get to write tomorrow's update from some place other than the hospital.