My Birthday... again.

Today is "D" day... day "ZERO"...  my "Birthday" . That's what they call it around here... my new Birthday. Ironically, it is Becky's REAL birthday. We won't get the celebrate until she gets here over the weekend.

Marie had some additional trouble during the night; they ended up keeping her overnight. Her platelets dropped so they couldn't take the femoral line out (Would have been a "Gusher"). She figures it's OK now, and they can take it out.... has to rest to see the reaction for about an hour, then she can get back to her hotel room to shower, change, etc., and back here to be with me.

Flurry of activity here this AM, in prep for the infusion which will probably take place just at noon or soon after. Getting all the premeds (immune suppressant) all the stuff they think they MAY need (additional anti rejection) ready.... UGH! I'll have a stream of folks in-and-out of here all day... SLEEP, NOT.

Ruth Ann will be getting here a little later on as soon as school is out, SKYPE (don.sforza) has been terrific... much better than the phone alone. It's good to see her face and she holds up the cat the the screen... maybe he'll remember me after almost 4 months.

Getting closer... 10:10AM (hey you old people, remember 1010 WINS - NY?). After WWCO,WATR, WBRY, WCBS, WNBC... The tuning capicitors in our transistor radios wore out faster than the batteries... flippin aroiund, trying to find the "right" song. Funniest was cruising through the center of town and you would hear a song coming froim another car and try to chase it with your radio before it went away, And you only had a couple of minutes to do this be fore it was goooooonnnnneeeee! At least at the beach all the radios were tuned to the same station (except for the BB games). The smell of cocoa butter waifting over the entire beach, sandy potato chips, warm cokes, squishy chocolate chip cookies.... ahhhh memories.

If I'm able, I'll post again with an update later... until then.,,, toodles.