January 1, 2009 9:40 PM

Wow! 2009! Thank God!

2008 couldn't end fast enough.

It was a quiet New Year's day with my brother-in-law, sister-in-law, and niece visiting. Played some cards and ordered out for food. Not super exciting. But, then again, my daily regimen is not supposed to be exciting - uneventful is what is expected. But it certainly was an enjoyable day.

Tomorrow its back to Boston for maintenance and for starting the ramp up process to the bone marrow transplant with a pulmonary test. Lord knows what's involved in that test - but I hope that my pulmonary tests out OK! I'll let you know!

So we'll see how the numbers work out in the morning and see where I am on the road to having my counts start their way back to normal levels.

Bob