Day +27

We received the preliminary results of Bill's bone marrow biopsy this afternoon. He has 1% blast cells. This is a very good result. anything less than 5% is considered satisfactory. We are very thankful to God for His kindness to us. The final results and the FISH analysis that measures any potential residual disease will be available in a week or so. We are very hopeful that they will concur with the preliminary results. We did not get the results of the % of donor blood as yet , that will be available also in a few days. We will let you know just as soon as we find out. Thank you all for your prayers today. It was a unnerving day to all of us. Thank God all is still well.

Bill is in great form tonight , very happy with his results and very definite that he does not want to see the inside of a hospital for a long time to come.....except his day visits. That is the spirit that will help him succeed. His day visits have been reduced to three days a week. The remaining days we can administer his I.V. fluids and magnesium at home. He has decided that he will not risk going out to a restaurant this weekend in case he might catch something.

Tonight in Houston is like one of those nights in the west of Ireland. The mist suddenly closed in on us and the fog and rain came. Truthfully, we would all prefer to be in Galway !!

Our thanks as usual for your prayers, thoughts, messages and phone calls. We feel very fortunate to have such support.