Friday - November 16th.

The past two days have included more anticipation of today’s bone marrow biopsy. If the number of leukemia cells is found to be sufficiently low, then Jan will be considered to be in a remission and we can begin to think about going home. It would still be at least a week before her white count would build to the minimum level which the doctors would consider to be safe. She would still need to avoid crowds, or anything which would pose an unnecessary risk. I f the results of the biopsy do not produce the desired results, then possibly a third round of chemo would be ordered, and our hospital stay could be extended another twenty days. It is now 11:00 A.M. and Jan has just returned, via a stretcher, to her room. She’s been gone about two hours. I’m sure that she will soon need to be medicated for a painful hip (which has been the drill with the three previous biopsies).

The pictures you see here are of the sculpture garden located in front of the hospital. Jan and I try to spend some time daily sitting by the waterfall and enjoying life outside of a hospital room. The weather lately has been perfect for waterfall-listening.