So all of you know that I have cancer, and I commonly call it leukemia.  Actually what I have is Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinema. Quite a mouthful I know, in fact it took me weeks to actually say the words correctly.  It is a rare cancer, which means not many treatments exist or have been tested, luckily they treat it like Myloma and lymphoma of which it exhibits some charateristics of both.

Here is a like to a web site that does a good job of explaining it.

http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/003148-pdf.pdf

And of course Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldenström_macroglobulinemia

1 weel to go....

Just one week to go, and I'm starting to feel some anxiety.  Fear that the procedure will happen, and, fear that it won't due to some unknown complication.

Have I made the right choice in pursuing the transplant?  I'm slowly starting to feel stronger, but I want that cancer out of my body!

Still many things that need to come toegther before next week, I will be working on those today.  

Starting a blog to journal my journey through the stem cell transplant.  I will try to post daily,  at least when the "action" starts.

Less than 2 weeks to go, and still trying to get things done at home, almost set. lining up lawn mowing, dog walkers, insurance, hotel, etc.

Remaining results from my pre-transplant risk testing are due back today, next appt. at VCU is scheduled for June 2.