GOOD NEWS !!!!!!!

Dear friends and family,

At long last we have wonderful news to share. Dr. Luger called yesterday afternoon and told Bob to stop the targettrin...she said he wasn't a candidate for the clinical trial any longer b/c he is not considered a chemotherapy failure anymore. He said HUH? Than she dropped the bomb....on the bone marrow of 5/30, there were no blasts(read leukemia cells) seen at all!!!!!! So he is considered a delayed remission....following in our Debs' footsteps once again. Bob was so dumbfounded he actually used profanity and said "what the hell does this mean? She said for now it means we do nothing, see what Mondays' BMB shows and go from there. She was very pleased though, and we are being cautiously optimistic. As many of you know, there is no cure for AML w/o a stem cell or bone marrow transplant, and we don't think Bob is a candidate for that. We wonder if she will want to do consolidation chemo though. We have many questions now that we have our wits about us, and Bob has an appt. to see her on 7/11. We don't think she'll do another BMB at that time, as she had planned, but we'll hopefully get answers to all our questions at that point. At any rate, we never hoped to get these results(well, in my heart I've always hoped for exactly this, but never truly expected it.) and plan to bask in it for now. We're also not sure what Bobs' counts will do now that he is off the targettrin, but Dr. Luger did say if they fall, she can put him back on it, just not in the study. So, last night we went to the Mainland Inn...still our favorite local restaurant....each had a cosmo(not as good as JT's though-he still makes the meanest one around)and a glass of wine, Bob had the vichysoisse and veal chop, I had the escargot and Coquilles St. Jacques(that really taxed my high school French) and Bob finished up w/ the creme brulee....alright I had 2 bites if you have to know. It was fabulous and felt so normal...a very nice change.
Well, I'd like to stay and chat, but I need to get myself in gear to go out and run some errands. I just wanted to let you all in on our exciting news, thank you for your tireless support....prayers, well-wishes, cards and blogs....and as always request that you continue, as something is definitely helping Bob in this big "adventure".

All our love,
Bob and Mo

P.S. KM, is that line from one of the Jaws movies....I hate to admit it, but that's all I could come up with.