February 3, 2009 10:55 PM

After beginning the past 2 days with "bummers", today was certainly a red letter day.

At long last the phone call came from my oncology doctor regarding the results of my bone marrow biopsy done on the 23rd. After apologizing for the delay in getting back to me, she said that, once again, my bone marrow is "squeaky clean". There is no sign of any leukemic cells! Praise God!

At this point, she told me that she would no longer be my primary physician and that I was basically now in the hands of my bone marrow specialist. As she had once put it, it was her job to shepherd me through the leukemia phase and get me in a position whereby I was fully ready to be able to have the bone marrow transplant. She has most certainly done an outstanding job!

I most certainly have no complaints. The doctors at Dana-Farber are phenomenal. I can think of a lot more things in life that are more pleasant than having chemotherapy and undergoing bone marrow biopsies - but the course that the doctors have prescribed for me so far has been perfect in every way. Your thoughts and prayers have touched both me and those who have been administering to me and I have most certainly experienced the healing hand of God up to this point.

So I close today on a good note - having gone to a movie and out to dinner with friends and even seeing other friends as well at another table. I will miss these moments in another week - but it is a small price to pay as part of the overall effort to get to that point of "full" recovery. One cannot achieve "full" recovery until 5 years have elapsed - but a "full" life can, once again, be lived after only one year.

Until tomorrow...

Bob