November 25, 2008 7:30 PM

The really good news of the day was that yesterday they sliced deeper into my bone marrow sample that they had from last week and redid the test and once again there was absolutely no sign of cancer cells. The bottom line from all this was that I now do not need to have a second bone marrow biopsy done – a relief for me as they are literally a pain in the ass!

So now I am literally in waiting mode until my counts go up so that I can go home. They continually feed me the antibiotics as I said before but that is it!

Well, it was another adventure in dining tonight! I branched out and ordered the “grilled sirloin burger”. On the menu it states that, “Brigham and Women’s hospital Food Service cooks raw meats well done”. I think that what this means is that they start cooking all the hamburgers at 5:00 in the morning and leave them on the grill until someone dares to ask for one. When the hamburger arrived, it was completely devoid of any juices, whatsoever, and hard as a hockey puck. Feeling courageous, I took one bite anyway and told my wife that I couldn’t eat it. I then offered her a bite to prove my point. With some reluctance, she took her bite and immediately commented, “That’s gross!” So each time that I order something new, I get the opportunity to scratch another item off the list of options. Pretty soon we’ll get down to PB&J as the only edible option outside of breakfast.

Unfortunately, during the bone marrow transplant portion of the program, you are not allowed to eat any food from the outside. When you juxtapose that with the fact that you cannot eat the inside food either – its going to make for some pretty rough times! However, I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Bob