Day 0

       Today for me is Day 0 or Day zero.What that means is the beaches have been bombed, the enemy bunkers have been mostly destroyed and my troops of stem cells are coming ashore to do what Americans can do best, win this war. In other words my stem cells have had over two weeks of R&R and are ready to shock and awe the myeloma cells. It will be an epic battle I am sure but I have confidence my boys will come out of this with a Victory of monumental proportions! The reason this is Day 0 is because this begins my first real offensive attack on the cancer. Spiritualism rebirth aside they refer to this as my 2nd birthday thus the day zero. Tomorrow will be +1, followed by +2 the next day and so on.

       I first started writing this before the stem cells were put back. Somehow I lost the original post so I will cover some of what it was about. Basically they were giving me medications that would fight infections and nausea and that they might make me sleep all day. With that in mind I wanted to get this out earlier in case I can't or just don't feel up to it later. Before I could get back the original was gone so I restarted this. Bottom.line now is the stem cells have returned to the fight and are ready the take on the evil myeloma army. I am sure the battle has already begun. I have been warned the battl e may not go so good for the first two or three days when we will rally and turn the tide of battle towards victory. In a few weeks the battle will come to an end after we anialate those scum sucking myeloma. Once we have prevailed I will go home and participate in the peace keeping phase of this battle. That means more chemo to stop the myeloma from coming back while we are still acessing the extent of our victory. Once that is determined we will make a determination of what kind of treatments I will need to continue and how frequently I'll need them or even if I will need them at all!

       Well just finished lunch and so far no ill effects from the transplant.. It has been over three hours. I don't doubt I'll have them but so far nothing. I am free to roam as they have anchored me from the IV poll. Four the next few hours I have to have a nurse come in if I want or need to stand but that should not be for long.

         This is going to be it for now. If anything else developes and I am up to it, I'll post it later. Everybody have a good day and continue to pray for Sheila Clendanial and also for her husband Don. I suspect it will be a nervous few days waiting on the biopsy report.

          Thanks if you took the time to read this. Stay tuned tomorrow for the next exciting adventures of Glenn and Kathy in OUR JOURNEY!

Thanks and good day to all!