3rd round done!

Kurt completed his 3rd round of chemo today. He was able to come home about 12:30 today. It was good to come home from work, instead of driving to the hospital and sitting there all night. Kurt has done so well with the treatments, that even he has been very bored there, but I guess that is a good thing.
They told us that they chose a donor. He is a 21 year old male, and matches really well. We won't be able to find out who he is or where he is from for a year, that is if he chooses to let us know who he is. We are so amazed that a kid would sign up for this and has already sent in his blood sample. What a blessing to know there are people out there that still want to help others. I know after this experience I will probably sign up for the registry. They will have to do some testing to make sure he is healthy and then Kurt will have to have some testing to make sure that he can go through this, so it looks like the process can start in about 4 weeks. It will be good to get started and done.
Kurt will try to stay at home again like the after the 2nd chemo, we just have to start going to the hospital this Friday to check his counts. We will probably have to go up almost every day for a week, but better that than to put him in for another week.
We will keep everyone posted with any new news. Thanks for your great friendship.

Back in again.(yuck!!!)

Well after over 3 weeks at home, Kurt had to go back today to do another round of consolidation chemo. His counts came back and it is time they said to do another round. We did find out more info regarding the donor for the transplant. They have requested four samples, and they do a 10 point check on the chromosones, hence the test on Kurt's chromosones earlier, and they found his to be unfavorable, so that is why he needs the transplant. They have a couple of people with 10 out of 10, but one person won't be available for awhile, the third was 9 out of 10, and the last one they are almost done with testing. They think the last one will also be a 10 out of 10, so now they will look at those 2 10 out of 10's and decide which one is the best. They said that this round of chemo will take about a month to go through the cycle, and the transplant if everything goes well will happen around the end of June. He will be in the hospital for about 4-6 weeks and then hopefully if all goes well, he will go home after, and then have to be watched carefully for a few months. We both enjoyed him being home, his counts were so good, that yesterday we went to a movie in the afternoon, when there wasn't very many people there. It was fun to go on a date again.
So keep him in your prayers again, that this chemo round will go smooth and he will get to come home again in 6 days. Thanks again for your support and concern, we have many good friends and family!

Still loving Home!

For the past week that Kurt's blood counts have been going down, we have been so blessed to still be at home. We have had to drive to the hospital everyday except Wednesday, to check his counts, he had to have a transfusion of platelets on Thursday. Friday he had a short physical with one of the PA's and he was told he was doing great. Then on Saturday and Sunday morning we drove up to the hospital and the counts were okay and starting to come up on their own, so we didn't have to wait too long and we were sent home. It was good, because on Saturday, I was going with my parents to Logan to see Chelsea our daughter in-law graduate from Utah State. It was hard to leave Kurt at home, but he cannot be around a group of people especially in a closed in area. It was a nice day, but long to be away from home and Kurt. We had a nice dinner at Chelsea's parents home and then on the way home, we stopped to see Ryan and Cher in Roy. Kurt did great at home, but wished he could have gone to support Chelsea. Congrats Chelsea!
This next week he will probably get to stay at home unless a fever or he gets sick. We are doing everything not to let him get sick. Then once his counts are up to normal, he will have to go in and do another round of consolidation chemo like the last time, and be in the hospital for about 6 days, and then hopefully get to come home for another 3 weeks. They are testing 4 blood samples right now for a match. They requested 6 donors and have 4 blood samples now. Once they have a couple of good matches, they will request the donor's marrow, and that is a process that requires the donor to mabye take a day off of work, so we have to be on their time schedule, and Kurt's counts have to be near normal in order to start the transplant process. Once everything is ready, they have to give Kurt extensive chemo and once the counts are down again, they will start the transplant. He will be in the hospital for 4-6 weeks at this time, in order for the whole process to work. Then at home he will need another few months of close monitoring. We are just ready to get on with it, and get this year over with!
Thanks again for everyone and their help. We really appreciate everything.