As I wrote last week, I got out of the hospital a few days earlier than I thought I would and several days sooner than I did last time in April. I think that was a good thing, but it remains to be seen. I'm not as strong as I was last time and I think that follows up with what happened this week.
Don't get me wrong, I believe I was ready to get out of the hospital when I did, they were keeping a 24/7 watch on me, but I don't think it was needed any more this time around which has been backed up by how I'm doing.
It was real nice for Amanda to come up and see us last week and weekend and I was real glad she was able to make it out to see the Pronk family, we would have wanted to go but I have to be pretty careful right now. Amanda said they were all doing pretty well.
So back to me, We met with the doctors yesterday (Tues. July 12th) and didn't really know what to expect going in but many of them were trying to get my line removed and to get the exit interview at the end of this week. - Well, that's not what is going to happen. This is how we are expecting things to go if my mind and body follow the plan. Next Wednesday morning I will go into the clinic to get what is hopefully my last set of labs for a while. Then just after noon, we'll have our exit interview with the medical staff and if everything goes well with that, they'll send me downstairs to get my line removed and they will kick me loose to go back to the care of Dr. Te in St. George until about day 100 when they will run all the labs and tests again to see how we did this time about getting all the little buggers. Hopefully things will be good enough that I'll just have some maintenance medication for a while and can achieve a full remission.
If all goes as planned, we should be leaving Salt Lake Friday morning July 22 to start heading south. Since it's the holiday weekend we haven't really talked about how long it will take us to get to Vegas, but I suspect it will be a couple of days.
We'll write again next week after plans are finaled or we know anything else to tell everyone.
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That sounds like great news. We'll continue to keep you in our prayers.
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