We're Done!!!!!!!!!!!

At Jim's reevaluation today at NIH, the doctors decided that 5 cycles of Chemo was enough. They feel that he had an excellent response and they now want Jim to regain his strength and weight and they will check his blood levels at two week intervals and then do CT scans and a bone marrow biopsy on August 24 and another evaluation (they call it restaging) on August 27. We are delighted! Now we have to figure out how he can sleep better at night (we'll see Dr. Steve Zimmet, his long time internist, about that tomorrow). He has an appointment next Tuesday to be measured for a super-duper brace for his hip to keep that from coming out. I want to thank Erin, Mike, Ann, Rick, Sally, and Dan for all the overnights, and Joe and Young Jim also--it gives me a full night's sleep with one of them on call. I'm hoping we can solve the sleepless nights problem soon so I don't have to impose on them. Thanks to all of you for your prayers, meals, rides, visits, support--oh yes, and to you, Maureen for sitting with Jim yesterday. Love you all, Barbara (and Jim)