Habubrat's blog

WooHOOOO! We are going home FRIDAY AM! Dave is just being monitored now until Thursday morning when he will get his vertebroplasty consult and it is expected to basically be the consult AND resolution, i.e., injecting his compression fracture with a bone cement to stabilize his T8&T9 vertebrae. The expectation is that it will handle his upper back pain AND the pain in his ribs which they attribute not to bone pain…

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a pleasant holiday as we head into 2009, which we probably all hope goes better than this past one! :) Dave is in Day #5 (Day #0 being the day of the transplant). He is right on schedule with how he is supposed to be progressing. His White Blood Count (WBC) is bottoming out and is currently at 0.02 and we expect it may get a bit lower or at least stay there over the next couple of…

Hi all! Quick update. Dave is finishing up his last hours of chemo as we speak and since they added one very nasty one this go round, it has knocked the snot out of him and he has been very nauseous. Poor guy. Can't even take all his meds, so I have just let it go. Not going to harass him about it all. Just the ones he feels are most important, he'll get back to the others shortly. Tomorrow we transplant. The…

Well, as we head into the holiday season and celebration of one year ending and a new one beginning, I just wanted to wish you all my good wishes for you to enjoy yourselves, think of all the things we are grateful for in spite of or because of, our new found challenges with Cancer and Multiple Myeloma in particular. I'm definitely focused on a much better year in 2009 and Dave on the road to full recovery and getting…

Still trying to figure all this group stuff out. It looks fun. :) Lori