Update 5/9/2012

Hello from Richmond everyone. Gennie had her first Doctor appointment since the transplant yesterday. The great news is her transplant is going beautifully. Her biopsy showed she had 100% donor cells and no signs of the MDS. The are still waiting for genetics to get back to make sure she does not still have the abnormal DNA. We should have those results very soon. Do date she has not shown any signs of GVHD. They have said it is a bit early but it is probably coming.
Now the not so good news. Every since she had a PICC line in her left arm she has had swelling and pain in that arm. They took repeated doppler scans of the arm and found nothing. Well they removed the PICC and the swelling and pain continued. Another Dopple and they found what we thought was one clot. Yesterday we were told it was several clots and they were getting worse. This is apparently a possible problem anytime you put in PICC lines or central ports. On Monday they are going to remove her double port and put in a new one on the right side of her chest. Everything to date has been on her left ide because back when she had cancer fourteen years ago they removes lymph nodes from under her right arm. However they have run out of choices and need to place the port there. Once they do this procedure they will begin using the new port immediately. She will resume using coumadin and I will continue to give her belly shots of enoxaparin each day to help disolve the clots. I call this her LOVE shot as the brand name for it is Lovenox. This could take quite a while. Obviously they will keep a close eye on this. My first question to the doctor was "What happens if clots develope on the other side once the port is moved there?" He said we will deal with it. I guess that answered that.
Things here in Richmond are going fine. I am pretty sure we have a family of baby elephants living above us. IF you follow the news you may have seen that Richmond was voted the second most obese city in the nation. I can attest to that as they are all living above me.
I will be going back to Poquoson this Friday to play in our Exchange Club/Michael Green Scholarship golf tournament. I am looking forward to seeing some friends. Shannon will be coming up here to stay with her Mom for a couple of days.
That's all for now folks, Bob
ps.. I have not proofed this or checked spelling or anything... so there!!