We were back at M. D. Anderson today and my platelets were back to 13,000. My hemoglobin is holding and rising a little so they did not give me blood. Jill, the P A, said she hates to give me blood because it looks like I am trying to take care of it myself. My red blood cells are still quite low and I am to self inject Procrit twice a week until the numbers are better.

Jill is helping get things set up for us so we can go home. The projected date is April 30th and that will be none to soon for us. If all goes well and everything goes well, we only have a couple of weeks left here. This time will be busy because we must get the catheter changed and make sure it is healing, have another infusion of Pentamidine (for PCP-pneumonia) this is given monthly for six months but I can have this done at home. We must also finish the paperwork for transfer to a dialysis clinic at home and my nephrologist in Dallas needs to be brought more actively back into the loop. There are some other things that need to be taken care of to insure a smooth transition in my treatment.

We are going home this weekend because Arthur wants to catch up on yard work and we need to turn the sprinklers on. I plan on sitting at home and enjoying myself and seeing our little dog, T. R. I will post again next Tuesday.

We finally feel there is an end to this and it is not far off.