Two trips.

We returned to the hospital today. When we met with the doctor, he told us that there are currently 12 "potentials" who will be contacted for further testing. The search for Joe's "miracle match" will likely go on for 1 or 2 months. If we find a miracle match in that time - awesome. If we do not, then we go with the closest match we have. Joe's doctor is confident that the closest match will be just as good as using a "perfect" match, if it is necessary. Vidaza is working really well for Joe right now, but apparently it can lose it's effectiveness by round 10 or 11. So the current plan is to avoid that. While at the hospital, we learned that Joe's counts for today were good except for his WBC which came down to 2.4. After we returned home, we learned that his neutrophil count was below 1000. Joe's still fine, but the "safe zone" is above 1000. Joe is starting round four of his chemo treatments on Monday. The doctor wanted to punch up Joe's WBC's before his next cycle...so...we had to go back to the hospital. (We had a message on our answering machine.) Joe got a shot of Neopogen. He's not confined to the house, but we will have to be more cautious for now.

Cammy passed along some fun photos from this past weekend, so I'm going to share. :)

Cammy and the Lambda brothers.
















Cammy and the Ott family.















Joe, me, and Lisa after the church drive.
















Joe's parents, Joe, me, and Cammy.

This is really silly, but I just found out that I missed Pamela's birthday a couple weeks ago. And since she is so sweet, and family and all. :) Happy belated birthday, BFF!!!!!

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

~Philippians 2:3-4