Friday, June 1st – Day 11
Hi Everyone,
With a new month beginning Mike’s blood counts are beginning to go up which means that engraftment has begun. 
Hopefully this means that he will start to feel better soon.
I just talked to him for quite a while and he had just come back from a Cat Scan. He has an IV in and they need to leave it in his arm until tomorrow. It is bugging him but with everything else going on he’s being a trooper about it. He still has a lot of sores in his throat and mouth and they really hurt. He can’t swallow very well yet and still isn’t eating or drinking. The nurses are keeping him hydrated and nurished so no need to worry.
It was just so good to actually talk for a while. I told him that I am going to visit him on Monday. There is a BMT Support Group in the afternoon and I am hopeful that Mike will go with me to that meeting. We’ll see. Mom is going to go see him on Sunday. After that, it is hard to tell when I’ll go again because they may actually spring him from the hospital and send him to mom’s house in Flint sometime next week.
Our sister-in-law Barb,who is John’s wife, and their boys Stephen and Andrew are coming to Michigan around June 6th for about 10 days. They are from Alaska and it is John’s shop where Mike works. Anyway, I’m sure we’ll be going to see ‘Uncle Mike’ while they are here.
I, and my family, will be gone tomorrow to an Ordination of a friend of ours to the Priesthood. I will post again on Sunday when I get home. Hopefully, Joe, our California brother and the creator of this blog, will post on Saturday to keep you all up-to-date.
Keep up being Prayer Warriors!!! It is working.
love, Ann