Reporting:

Have you ever wondered how late you could be to a doctor appointment and still have the doctor see you? Well, we were 3 hours late to Terry's appointment today, due to an accident ahead of us. We called in to tell them of our delay, but only left a message on their recording. We thought they'd call us back, but they never did. We wondered if we should call to make sure they could still see us, but decided we weren't going to give them a choice.
We wanted to at least get Terry's blood work checked for the day to see about a transfusion, so we waited for the accident to be cleaned up and continued on to the clinic.
It turned out much better than we thought. We had the blood draw, the aspiration/biopsy, the doctor visit, and the transfusion. We didn't get home until after 9:30pm, but we are glad to have it done in this one trip.
We learned that the CAT scan he had Thursday showed no sign of the EBV, but they did see slightly enlarged lymph nodes, which didn't seem to cause much concern.
We felt that the bone marrow aspiration and biopsy was well done - for what it is. Luckily he only had to have one side done today.
The Hematocrit was low, so they went forward with the transfusion, and it went well too, even though it seemed to take forever. That should help him feel a little bit better.
The platelets are creeping downward and the WBC and Neutrophils are most always low, if not critical, so there just seems to be a general consensus that this aspiration is perfect timing. We really are looking forward to the results and will post them when we get them - hoping for Monday's appointment, but we're not sure.

Please forgive me if this has not made sense. I should be in bed, but had to wait up for kids who had basketball games tonight and decided to take advantage of this quite time.