Eddie starts taking Neupogen shots tomorrow, twice per day. He'll take shots for 4 days that cause his stem cells to jump out of his bone marrow and into his blood stream. On Tuesday, he'll go through a 4 to 6 hour process where blood comes out of one arm, goes through a swirly machine and then back into his other arm. The stem cells are separated from his blood via cetrifugal force, much like the merry-go-round Anna and I rode in Salina, KS, just before she crashed on her bike and looked like a baseball player that had slid head first into home plate. Those stem cells are then thrown in a big freezer, possibly next to a few pints of Ben and Jerry's with my name on them, until Jo is ready for them in a couple of weeks.
Jo doesn't have to go back to MD Anderson until next week. For now, the focus shifts to tomorrow's big pumpkin carving party and a visit from Eddie's family who have all driven down from Lufkin to spend the weekend with us.
So, Anna and I really did play on the Merry-Go-Round in Salina and that is the first time I can remember seeing a Merry-Go-Round in many years. Does your local park have one? I'll bet not. Have they been deemed unsafe? Have they been banished to protect us from hurting ourselves? No more Merry-Go-Rounds. No more riding in the back of the pick-up truck. No more drinking out of the waterhose. No more sticking our tongues to the flagpole in the middle of a Minnesota winter. Today's kids might be safer, but we did have a lot of fun back then.
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Merry-Go-Rounds are being banned all over. Lenore Skenazy had a recent post about it.
The pumpkin party looked fabulous....oh how fun to have little ones again.
Speaking of little ones, a 4 legged feline adopted us last week. She's quite a character and will take the place of two legged "little ones" in our home. Kudos to Eddie this week. And Tim....no raspberry Ben and Jerry's for you !!!
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