MERRY CHRISTMAS

Twas the night before Christmas.....I'm finding it hard to believe. We just wanted to wish everyone Joyous and Peaceful Holy Days, whatever your religious affiliations.
We are "keeping Christmas" this year, but in a much calmer and quieter manner than our usual. Bob is still "settling his brain for a long winters' nap". i.e. he is still sleeping. For some reason he seems to get his soundest sleep from dawn til 11am or so. He's still having trouble w/ the darned nausea, despite the meds. He's still eating light and I think at times the nausea is actually due to hunger. In fact this morning he was downstairs at 6am eating cereal,"to stave off the nausea" as he put it. His counts are holding, and he hasn't needed any blood or platelets since last time I wrote. His white count keeps dropping down however and is now at 2.0, so we're being more diligent about our germ warfare. Bob has an appt. this coming Friday w/ Dr. Zipin in Chalfont, and on Jan. 2nd he sees Dr. Luger at Penn. I'm not sure whether he will have the repeat bone marrow at that time. It may be too soon at that point, but I will let you know.

We both wanted to thank everyone for all the beautiful Christmas cards we've received. I especially love the baby and family photos. I'm amazed every year at how quickly our kids grow up. As I wrote last time, I did manage to get some cards out, but mostly to family, so please forgive me for not reciprocating to you all this year. I don't want to single people out, but there are groups who have been such a wonderful support...our co-workers at Tri-Valley and Montgomery Surgi-Center....all our "old" co-workers at North Penn(sorry CMMC, but you'll always be North Penn to me)...all the "old" LMG docs. and staff....ALL Bobs' patients who have sent cards, made meals and blogged...of course our "inner circle"(as Deb T. calls it) of close friends...and last but not least our families. We would not have made it through this trying time w/o you all lifting us up along the way. We love and cherish you all.

Merry Christmas
All our love,
Bob and Mo