Birthday Presents

Everybody loves birthday presents. Kyle says his favorites have been the archery equipment (bow and arrows, quiver, arm guards, etc) and also his BB/Pellet gun. And of course his fishing pole. Josh always likes his baseball stuff; gloves, bats, etc. One of Dani's favorites was the BYU Basketball Camp she went to (which she won MVP at). Alexis favorite 'present' was actually her b-day party this past year. Marleigh remembers the ice skates. It's hard for me to remember all my previous birthday presents.I remember bikes and watches and things like that.
Well, tomorrow is my birthday and I'm spending it at DHMC. This is my Re-Staging day, the day we determine where my cancer is at. Last time we did this the news was good, very good. We determined that it was in remission. Unfortunately it came back very quickly. My medical team made some adjustments to my Chemo regime; putting me on Thalydomide and taking me off Revlimid. They also made adjustments my Velcade. And of course, they added Cytoxin to the list Chemo medication; this is the nasty bugger that took my hair, made me neutrapenic, wacked out my blood counts. However, the cancer had wacked out white, red, and platelets, as the bone marrow was compromised, and could not produce the blood cells it normally did. The Thalydomide had side effects that were hurting more than helping, so I'm back on Revlimid. So I'm not sure what to expect this time. I think it'll be remission again, we'll see. Either way, I will take all the results with me to Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston on the 10th to meet with Dr. Richardson, who is a Myeloma only Oncologist. Then we'll go from there. We don't know what he will recommend, but we are assuming, contingent upon results from tomorrow, that the plan is still to get me into remission, then move to stem cell (bone marrow) transplant.
So my wish for a Birthday present is good results from the Re-Staging. That'll be a present I remember.

Blaine