The final total of stem cells is 5,170,000. The last day of collection was the best at a total of 1,400,000.

Today I had a blood specimen collection and my numbers are still off but they are not worse than yesterday so Dr. Anderlini is not going to give me blood transfusions. Now I will have a week of resting to allow the Neupogen and Leukine to get out of my body and for my body to rebound from the collection. I will go back on the weekly Procrit shots for two weeks then off them for awhile.

We have no appointments until next Thursday so we are going home for a few days. We will return to Houston on Wednesday and I will go back for blood specimen collection Thursday morning and to see Dr. Anderlini in the afternoon. Then I will go into the hospital on Friday and the high dose chemo will be administered on Saturday and Sunday. Then a day of rest on Monday and on Tuesday, I will begin to receive my stem cells back again. The stem cells are frozen and waiting to get back to work.

Before we left the hospital, Arthur had to show them he could change the dressing and take care of the subclavian catheter. He passed with flying colors so we were given our supplies and sent on our way.

This will be the last posting until we return to Houston on Wednesday. Thank you all for your interest, kind words and prayers.