Ready for the next step!

Well, its been another very long lag in posts, sorry!
Exams took December; then a virus took our hard drive; so that's been consuming our time the past few weeks.

Vern has finished his third round of chemo and we went to IU last week in anticipation of his bone marrow biopsy. We braved the cold, the snow, and they braved an eight hour trip with ME in the car (my brothers are adventurous! :-) ) and we got great news! Vern didn't have to have the biopsy.
YET!
He will still have to have it at the end of everything but hey, at least he can skip it for now, those are no fun!I remember when he had the first one and Mike and I waited in the lobby. Every man that came down that hall while we waited came out clutching their backsides and grimacing in pain. If it were me, I would have ran in the other direction screaming "No thanks, I don't want it!" (not that poor Vern has a choice!)

So, now we are ready to move onto the stem cell transplant. Vern is waiting for IU to call him to set it all up. I wait for him to call me...waiting, waiting, waiting. Poor guy, he feels like he is always waiting!

So, the real journey begins from here. He did fabulous with the chemo. He worked almost every single day as sick as he was. There were days, many of them he simply worked and then crashed when he came home. He is so brave!!!!

The stem cell could be rough. Very rough. That's what they tell us anyway. Three weeks in isolation type environment and weeks of sickness and a long recovery. But the key in all this is R-E-C-O-V-E-R-Y!!! We know Vern is a fighter and he will come out with both fists up and swinging. And he knows we will be there for him during his fight.

Vern has God walking beside him always and that makes all the difference.

Thanks for all your prayers, they are appreciated.

Andra