Day 129

My first day of harvesting was unimpressive. I only got 200,000 stem cells and they want to harvest 12,000,000. But my count went from 3.6G/DL to 12.4G/DL so maybe the second day will be much better. We'll know on Monday. Judging by the amount of bone pain, it should be better. This is the first time I've ever used the words "pain" and "better" in the same sentence. Thanksgiving with Melissa and Joanie was very good. We had an oven stuffer roaster chicken instead of turkey, but Tara brought some turkey for me from Pennsyvania - thank you Tara. My Dad is coming over to see me this afternoon with Eileen and I'm looking forward to the visit. I'm suffering from a little bit of cabin fever but understand why things have to be the way they have to be.