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This past weekend, we all went over to Mom & Dad's to help work in the yard and open up the pool. It was a lot of fun. We had a good day. Dad was low on energy, but high on motivation. He got down to the pool to supervise the guys getting the pump going.

Yesterday, he and Mom went down to the clinic at the hospital for a treatment which took way too long. Dad will get five "chemo" treatments this week through IV at the clinic. It's a different chemo than he's received before with few, if any, side effects supposedly. This is in an effort to suppress any further growth of the leukemia until we get to transplant.

Today, I know was going to be a long day at the hospital for them because they were going to meet with the radiologist who'll do the radiation later this month on Dad, meet with his doctor, get blood (takes 4 hours), get his labs drawn, and get the chemo. I doubt they'll be home much before 6:00, if they're lucky and their first appointment was around 9:00-9:30. The good thing about it all, is he gets to come home, though. At least from my perspective.

The rest of the week plays out kind of routinely with more doses of the chemo. I think after this week, Dad just goes in for routine lab draws until he actually checks back into the hospital on June 19th.

I did register with the Be The Match program for bone marrow donation this weekend. If you go to marrow.org you can look up places in your area who are sponsoring bone marrow drives. If you're not registered, think you might want to, or are thinking of giving/donating blood or blood products but need a little encouragement, email me, read my blog - My Dad's journey has made me an aggressive advocate for people to donate. It's simple, it could save a life.

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Keep the prayers, well wishes, good thoughts coming. We need them, love them, appreciate them. While you're at it, add all those people suffering from cancer to your list. I know my list continues to grow with people to pray for who are battling one form of cancer or another.