Hang On To Your Hats

We are home. We had a nice trip. The roads were good on the way home. We caught colds. John is sleeping. I feel better today than I did last night. Last night I had the blankets piled on, a hot water bottle in bed with me and I still could not get warm and I ached all over. So far John seems to be weathering this cold O.K. I hope that continues. Sam and Ben are sick today. Poor guys.

John went to his appointment at the cancer center today. He is doing good. We did have a bit of a bomb dropped on us today. Because his Multiple myeloma is high risk to recur Dr. V. has decided the best route to take at this point is to do a donor transplant. Hang on to your hats folks. All you siblings out there are going to be notified and will be tested to see who is a match. If there is a match the transplant will take place in Seattle in approximately half a year at the at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. They don't like to wait until the cancer recurs before doing this. Even though they do transplants in Calgary apparently they are not taking any new cases there at this time.

We will have a lot of things to organize for this. We need to get passports just in case we have to fly and cannot drive there. I need to get my permanent resident card so I can get back into the country. My citizenship application will take at least a year to process. I have to get an American passport so we will get to work on all of that ASAP!

We will have to live in Seattle for about three months so we will have to rent. I went on line today and figure that it will cost about 1200 to 1400 dollars a month for rent. Pray that I can get in a lot of extra hours of work this summer.

We may have to make more than one trip to Seattle. I am hoping that we will be able to avoid this scenario but sometimes they have you come in to consult then go home then come back for the transplant. I feel numb. Somehow we will get through all of this.