Well, I couldn't sleep so thought I'd update a bit. Good news is yesterday, my wbc (white blood count) was 13,000!! My red blood count was a bit low still, but hopefully tomorrow it'll be back up to above normal. Also, I've had some chest congestion the last few days, which has been making it hard to rest and is just plain annoying. I'm not sure if that's related to any of this or just another thing going on. The dr. did chest x-rays last week and perhaps will again tomorrow. He said there is something on them, what he called 'infultrates', but he started me on an antibiotic in the IV, and so wasn't too worried about it. I was hoping it would go away pretty soon, but not yet. Oh well, chest congestion I can deal with....excruciating pain...not so much, and praise the Lord that's gone.

Another interesting thing about all this is that my appetitite has been weirdly suppressed. I'm just not hungry much at all. Not sure if I'm nauseated or what but this is definitly a first for me! I'm usually the one cleaning everyone's plates at the end of the meail, not giving away my food!

I'm really hoping to get to go to Abilene for Thanksgiving. Not sure if that will happen yet or not. Monday (or a few hours from now), we'll go to Baylor, get treatments, see what my bloodwork is and probably talk to Dr. Fay about the next steps...when I will start the official transplant work-up, if I can go home for Thursday, how long, etc.

Hopefully I'll be writing the next one of these from Abilene with family and food surrouding me! (although I may not be partaking of the food, but at least it'll be there!)

Until then,
in His Grace Alone,

Luke