1st Day Back to Work!

Today is Neal’s official 1st day back to work! I told him we needed to get a picture just like I do for the kids 1st day of school. He gratefully obliged.:)
He will start back very part-time working Monday and Tuesday mornings, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. We are so grateful for Dr. Thomas stepping up and holding things together at the office. He and the staff have been very flexible and supportive during these past 10 months. That’s a long time to have the schedule turned upside down but they have been awesome!

Neal has been feeling pretty well. His white counts have been struggling to go up so he has been giving himself Nuepogen shots to boost them. Last week his counts were up to 12!! Tomorrow we go to the University of Chicago to have his hematoma removed. (Yes, he has to already change his patients but when the doctor says come, that’s what you do!) The hematoma has been giving him some pain so the doctor felt it best to remove it and send it in for testing.

When we go to the hospital tomorrow we will be able to see a couple that we met with as a result of the article in the newspaper about Neal’s story. Ernie had his transplant last week and is in the stage where his body is saying “What’s going on here? What am I suppose to do with these new cells?” We look forward on seeing them and encouraging them.

Please pray for Neal’s stamina as he ramps back up to working on a regular basis.

Also on this milestone day is out youngest son’s, Collin, 17th birthday along with my mother’s. A big day!

Thank you for your prayers.
On the journey,
Trish