May 24, 2007: Thank you family and friends for your prayers, positive thoughts, clever e-mails, cards and phone calls, it means a lot.

Relapse! I am back at Methodist Hospital for chemotherapy which will lead to another bone marrow transplant this summer.

Bottom line, the transplanted marrow of youth and beauty did not triumph over age and wisdom - darn!! This go round I have suggested a male donor in hopes we can be more compatible.

Going home in a few days, please stay in touch, ONWARD.......

May 11
Remember the country western song ? Detour there's a muddy road ahead.
Two weeks ago after months of Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) . " Irregular cells showed up in the bone marrow biopsy. Thankfully through osmosis your calls, cards, prayers and positive thoughts reach me with every bump along this muddy road.
The immediate approach is stop the steroids and immune suppressants, twice a week visits to Methodist to evaluate what the donor cells are doing to destroy blasts, and experiencing what GVHD is like without immune suppressants. Good news -my brain seems more normal? Challenge - my skin looks and feels like a Gulf Coast sun burn complete with itching. Onward on the muddy road.