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We arrived back in Denver Wednesday night. Hallaluha! The last 2 days have been beautiful Colorado days: sunny, blue skies, temp in the 70's. Everything I missed about the Colorado climate was here to enjoy. Getting "discharged" from the Myeloma Center took some work, but when a nurse suggested that the doctor was running late and I might have to wait an extra day I went into action, resulting in another 8 hour day there running to and fro, but finally getting discharged at 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

So now what? I'm exhausted and have about 2 to 3 hours of energy to engage in conversation or low key activity, then I seem to start fading. I've lost 40 pounds, mostly muscle (yes I had some) and so I'm plotting how to gain some strength. Right now walking twice a day plus multiple trips up the 4 flights of stairs in our house are my exercise regime.

We have to visit the clinic twice a week to have my blood tested and sent to Little Rock. They will be monitoring my cancer levels. We could be home for as long as a month provided my "numbers" don't start running amuck. Then back to Little Rock for testing and another chemo regime, which hasn't been defined for us yet.

I never expected that I would miss my home and seeing friends as much as I did in Arkansas. Four months of daily trips to the clinic and feeling like my whole world was "treatment" was mind numbing. We felt like we had been yanked out of our lives and plunked in some alternate universe. It is so refreshing just to be back, if nothing else, in proximity of the lives we had been living. I do hope that further treatment can be administered in Denver so we don't have that added burden of being so removed from our very large support group.

So, for now, we are enjoying being home and seeing friends.
Dan