Good news... I think

We just got back from Tim's doc's office. His electrophoresis and immunofixation both showed

a faint band in IGG Kappa region against a dense polyclonal backround. I always read this

as his M-spike peaking its head out. The doctor said again that this was fine. This was nothing

to worry about. There is no quantifiable m-spike. Okey dokey. He's one of the top MM specialists in the world so I guess I'll listen to him. His tests have shown this before and the next time, it showed, "no monoclonal proteins dectected" so I'm not too worried. They don't want to see Tim any earlier

than the normal 3 month span we've been doing. Oh and I made them run his vitamin D

levels. They have found that many MM'ers are low in this. A lot of the population is but MM'ers

are even more prone to it and you need vit. .D. It's good for your bones and lots of other things.

Sure enough, he was low. The doc told me to give him my D pills. Tim is already grumbling but

I'm gonna stick to this with him. He of course turned it on me and said I never take vitamins either but I'm starting and I guess my ragging on him will be a reminder for me too. I asked the doctor about the total therapy protocols. Both Tim's docs used to work in Arkansas with the

doctor who does this treatment. I also found out that the gene expression profiling that is used

in Arkansas did become available for use in December. Prior to this, this was not available to

other MM docs, as far as I know. So, I was glad to get some questions answered. I told Tim that if he was gonna get MM, he picked the right place to live. His docs are known internationally and

are among the top in the world. And besides that, they're really nice guys who don't wear lab coats and act like regular Joe's despite being CRAZY FREEKIN' BRILLIANT. We really like the

folks at our oncologist's office and if you gotta be at a cancer center, it helps to be among such nice people who truly care about you. Gotta take your blessings where you find' em. Well, back to the rental. One last punch list to finish and a new tenant moving in this weekend and hopefully, we can get a rest from that place and I can get back to my own disaster of a house!

The above pic is our rental. It's a nice joint. There is a 3 acre nature preserve behind it with a little river and there are lots of varmints: deer, geese, ducks, an occasional fox and red-tailed hawk. So pretty with all the snow now. But I am so DONE shovelling driveways for sure!