Update from Margaret

Here's a progress report from Margaret --

Hi – the blog hasn’t been updated in awhile so I am going to try to update it for Cindy. Last week Cindy completed her Chemo as well as the stem cell transplant. After all the build up the procedure only took an hour!!!

The doctors are constantly monitoring Cindy and all of her various blood counts etc… Last week they detected an infection which sent her back to the Mayo Clinic for an IV antibiotic. She didn’t have to stay but was required to have the IV antibiotic twice a day for 7 days. She is finally finished with that.

Although it doesn’t appear as if she has felt the full effects of the chemo yet she is feeling pretty crappy. As she described yesterday she has the worst hangover in her life and it won’t go away!!!! Unfortunately it will probably get worse before it gets better.

Thanks to Dave and Lori’s DVD player and Susan’s Ipod earphones Cindy has already watched the 1st season of Arrested Development. She is currently watching The O.C. and is then planning to move onto Curb Your Enthusiasm. We hope that she will be able to come home before she has to move onto another series.

She really appreciates all the cards, magazines, phone messages etc… She would love to be able to return all the messages but right now she doesn’t have the energy. Thanks for all of your support. It really means a lot and is very much appreciated.

Love, Margaret