The Day Has Come

To All:


Well here we sit at the SCCA/Hutch getting Ret reintroduced to her stem cells! They call it her new birthday, unfortunately the gestation period was longer than nine months but we'll take it anyway. The procedure is an all day gig but the actual stem cell infusion takes only about a half an hour. That's partly due to the little "Over Achiever" kicking out so many cells during capture but also there's med's, hydration and general stuff they have to monitor so that adds to the day. After that we head home hunker down and wait for hopefully the re-graftment process to take hold. I say head home and hunker down but really we have to be here everyday for them to monitor Ret's process, so we continue our daily trips to the SCCA.


Some may be asking or saying home, yea home, they are letting us manage this whole thing from home. Actually they say it's better for the patient if you can manage from home and given the fact we're so close that's what we're doing. I really believe it's because Brandstrom, Miller and the Krekows made a large contribution to the SCCA/Hutch so they let us go home instead of us staying with any of them! Oh well their original offer seemed nice anyway.



Gotta go the stem cells just showed up for the Birthday party!!



Love,

Ret & Jack