November 12, 2013.. We spent 6 hours at the hospital on our first visit of the day, but thank goodness, the second visit was short and just long enough to get the second Neupogen injection. I received another liter of saline and another pint of blood. Each of those takes one hour to administer. I also received my last injection of Velcade so that totally completes the chemo for this trip. 

I did not feel as good today as I have in previous days. The chemo is continuing to have effects on my body and will for quite a while yet. I have to wonder what negative things are being done to my body by the chemo. I have to look at it as not having much choice but to take the chemo. 

I am hoping today was my low point day and things will start to improve now. 

It is good to see the nurses in the area where we go. We have seen them many times in the 2.5 to 3 months spent here this year. We are always greeted with big smiles, and it seems as if they are really glad to see us. Today we were talking with the nurse who has taken care of me the most while I have been here and found out she lost one of her two children when he was 7.5 years old. He was run over by a school bus. We just don't know what grief the people we meet each day have encountered.

My white count today was .08, hemoglobin-8.3, platelets-42 

Note to our friend Shirley in Michigan... There was a car from Michigan in the hospital parking garage today with a myeloma awareness sticker on it.