November 29, 2008 8:05 PM

HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After 25 days (the usual stay is 28+ days), I am finally home! Of course, I spread the good news earlier that I was going home. Well, it took over 5 hours to cross all the t’s and dot all the i’s before I could actually leave the hospital. I am to treat my stay at home as an extension of my hospital stay – no contact with crowds; no contact with children; if I get any infection, or feel a cold coming on, I am to contact a doctor immediately and go to a hospital to get antibiotics as my resistance to disease is still not quite up to normal. I can, however, eat and drink whatever I want so I had 1 glass of wine with my dinner. It capped off a fantastic day.

How long I stay at home, I do not know. I am to call the doctor on Monday to find out the next step in the process. I guess that the doctors decided not to do the next marrow biopsy – I didn’t ask. When I heard that I could go home, I did not want anything to jeopardize that decree.

My mother, sister, and brother-in-law came by this afternoon not knowing that I was going to be leaving. But it worked out fine since it took so long to finalize the discharge papers and we had a great visit.

So it will be a little R&R tomorrow and until I find out what the next step in the process will be.

Please continue to keep me in your thoughts and prayers – you are all doing such a wonderful job!!!!!!!

Bob