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.