November 9, 2015.. Today was a long day just as I thought it would be but we got all the scheduled tests for today completed. We got back to the apartment at about 7:30 tonight. All the tests went pretty smoothly. Before the bone marrow biopsy, a visit with a doctor's assistant is required to have a physical exam. The place where the exam has been done in the past has been relocated to the Infusion Four area. That is the place where we spent so much time back in 2013. When we went there today, it was like a big reunion. It was so good to see some of the people that had been so good to me back in 2013 when we spent 3.5 months here. I felt like I was a celebrity the way they are treating me. I got lots of hugs which always come in handy to have. We got to see one sweet, young nurse that also has a blood cancer. She had been to Houston and gotten a bone marrow transplant. She seemed to be doing well now and showed us her engagement ring. I sure do wish her well. She had been the nurse assigned to me several times back in 2013. It was so nice to see those people and I wish I could have talked to them more. One of the nurses I saw today is one I had posted about back in 2013. During that Thanksgiving, she baked me a sugar free apple pie and brought it in to me. I am including a photo below Reta had made on her Ipad in 2013. As I explained in the blog back in 2013, she lost her 6 year old son when he was run over by a school bus.

When we were checking in first thing this morning, we saw someone we knew from Rogersville. He is a myeloma patient and we had no idea they were here too. I was hoping to see them again sometime during the day but we didn't. He was having tests today too.  

This is what it looks like in the lobby where we go inside each day we are here. 

Tomorrow, I have a PET scan. That is the only test I will have tomorrow.