September 12 Dr. Te Appointment

I went to see Dr. Te today, I got to experience the detour through the Valley of Fire between the Moapa Tribal Plaza and the Logandale Exit on I-15 - both directions. More about that later. The good news on all my tests are that other than being anemic and having almost no white blood cells, the rest of my standard tests are still looking very good, my kidney and liver functions are good, most everything is pretty good and has stabilized. The not great news is that I'm still stuck on 0.4 on the the blasted M-spike. Dr. Te is going to call Dr. Petersen at the LDS Hospital BMT Clinic to decide what they want to advise me, I think I'll probably get contacted by Cindy Nordling fromt he LDS BMT this next week to start making plans for the pre-admittance tests, I think they will probably let me do most of them down at Dixie Regional Medical Center since it is owned by the same IHC company. I talked with Patty and Amanda about it a little tonight and Patty wants me to investigate whether it would be possible to use another medicine to see if we can get the number (M-spike) down below the 0.2 level that Dr. Petersen advised us when we went to SLC in August. I'm not sure if it's even possible, but I told her we would investigate the possibility to see? If the answer is no, then most likely I'll finish this round of Pomalyst on Sunday Oct. 5th and either before that, or shortly after that, I'll get the pre-admittance tests done and within about 2 weeks after that I should be headed for the BMT on the 8th floor at LDS Hospital in SLC. Don't know what that means for our Thanksgiving on Nov. 27th, but where ever I am, I'll probably be wearing a masking watching what I eat as far as un-processed foods, it will be great. I'll try to remember to add a little bit when the decision is made for the schedule for October. We had a great time in Parowan over Labor Day. Patty and I really appreciated all that Bruce and Cara did to prepare for our herd and everyone got along very well. It was good to see everyone, and glad we got to spend some time with Linda before she went back to Alabama. The weather was fantastic and the kids and grandkids had a terrific time spending time together for the weekend. We got to ride the ATV's and eat and eat and eat. Back to the detour. Before I start, I need to recognize the hardships that Bruce had to go through this week to get his deliveries to the Moapa Plant this week. I don't know how many trips he had to make, but commercial vehicles were all suppose to go from Cedar City through Panaca and Alamo and then down US 93, so his drive would have added hours to his normal trip because of the section of I-15 that went out was around the exit that he takes to get off I-15 to make his deliveries. I haven't talked with them today, so I don't know if they figured something faster out later in the week, but the first time he had to make the trip was very long and painful dealing with all the semi trucks and other traffic. I can only imagine just how bad that was. I was able to take the road through the Valley of Fire, it was just about an hour going up this morning from the time I left I-15 and the Moapa Tribal Plaza until getting back on I-15 at the Logandale exit. Which means it cost me about 45 +/- minutes to make the detour. Coming home this afternoon I think it was a little longer because there was a semi (don't know why) leading us through the Valley and there were a lot of times we didn't get to even the 35 MPH speed limit. They opened up the temporary road while I was on the detour - near the end of it, so I guess I could have stayed in St. George for another hour and not had to make the detour, but I would have made it hope about the same time. We hope everyone is well, and having a good September. Until next time.