Back home again!

Well, it's been a couple of pretty long days...I feel scanned out.  I've had almost every scan known to man in the past two days (not really--it just seems that way).  God has blessed in so many ways.  Somehow, my last scan today was moved up almost an hour, and we were able to leave and head back for home about an hour earlier than we anticipated.  We talked to Janis a couple of hours out of town, and she told us that a pretty severe storm with large hail hit Boerne probably less than an hour after we left there.  If we had been there when we thought we were going to be there, we may have sustained damage.  Thank you, Lord!

I was joking about being worried about the hair follicle samples that had to be taken, taking into account my hairless dome.  On Tuesday when it was time, I thought I was being tortured by Jack Bauer (of "24" fame).  They needed five samples with good follicles intact.  They started with my eyebrows, but the follicle was not acceptable, so they went next to my mustache.  Although the sample was a good one, they decided to try elsewhere when they saw the tears in my eyes.  They were able to find enough chest hairs (yes, I used to have some before this).  I told Helen I would have thought the chest hair removal hurt bad if they hadn't already plucked a mustache hair.

I'm on the schedule for taking the drug for the first time on Monday, barring something turning up on the MUGA (heart) scan or my blood work that would exclude me from being accepted in the trial.  We have not gotten any results from any of the scans yet.  We expect to hear from our research nurse tomorrow.  

It's nice to be home again.  We are very tired but glad we came home today.  We will be heading back Sunday, and this time will have to stay for eight or nine days.  We're both going to work in the morning, so I will wrap this up.  I'll have more info about the drug and our schedule in the next few days, Lord willing.

Tfyewap! (thanks for your encouraging words and prayers!)

Love you all,

Kenny