Stem Cell Harvest Decision

June 28, 2005

Hi all. I hope this finds everyone doing well! I continue to keep

you all in my thoughts and prayers. It was great to see Gregg's

good news and I know we are all buoyed by this!

After much thinking, pondering, mulling and perusing - I've decided

to go with the stem cell harvest in early August (August 2 - 11).

Dr. DeLima (Gregg and Dane's dr.) will be doing it for me and I have

utmost respect and confidence in him. I will have to be off the

Gleevec for two weeks - which makes me a bit nervous - then four days

on Neupogen - then hopefully a three day PB harvest. Of course

there is some amount of intrepidation . . . but I think I've worked

through most of my anxiety.

Larry plans to bring his laptop with him and he'll work while I am

there. We also hope to visit some of the sights in Houston as well

as take a side trip to Galveston - with it's quaint houses and water

views. I believe it's about an hour and 1/2 from Houston. We'll

rent a car so we can do some 'fun' things.

I don't have any results yet from my 6/14 visit to MDA. Hopefully

I'll get the results in a few weeks and let everyone know how I am

doing. While I was there, there is lots of positive expectations

from the AMN trial that my dr. (Dr. Giles) is heading up. So there's

lots of exciting things 'in the pipe'. Not to mention lots of hope.

Sending my love to all of you,

Barbara

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