So I'm coming at ya from very chilly Salt Lake City, I have been used to 60 and 70 degree days in Las Vegas for pretty much all of January and here its more like 30 to 40 degrees. It's cold!!! BUT just like I said I think the cold is scaring my Dads Myeloma away :). We met with one of his transplant doctors ( Dr. Hodja ) and went over all my Dads number from diagnosis to today. When he was originally diagnosed in April 2010 he has a bone biopsy and his plasma cells or Myeloma cells we about 60% of his cells running through his blood as of yesterday we are down to 15%!! Also when he was originally diagnosed his M-spike was 6.9 and as of yesterday it is 1.04!! I am very confident that the transplant will kick both those numbers to 0 and we will have no trace of Myeloma existing :). So far the process is going pretty smoothly my dad goes for shots 2 times a day to boost his stem cells and he starts his collection process on Monday. When we originally met with the doctors they told us their goal is to collect enough stem cells for 2 transplants and we told them with my dads age we want them to collect enough for 3 transplants. Our first doctor we met with a few months ago didn't really give us a okay on that but the doctor yesterday wrote down that they are to collect 15 million stem cells which would be enough for 3 transplants so that was awesome!!
Other than that we are just spending time together and getting them all settled in their apartment. We are on the 10th floor at the Gateway, the apartment is really nice. Lugging up a few weeks worth of groceries 10 floors ( even in a elevator) is not that fun though lol
I'll be coming home tomorrow and then we will see what the doctors next steps are and when I'll be coming back.
It's working peopple, keep the prayers coming!!!
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