Update on Gary

(from his blog) Great news! Rejoice with us! We are giving God ALL THE GLORY! WOW! He is amazing! I am “squeaky clean”. My bone marrow biopsy was clean and all the DNA tests came back clean. This means I am in total remission! Thank you, Lord!

We will proceed with collecting my own stem cells for transplant next February. We meet all day this Thursday and next Monday morning with the doctors to evaluate me for the stem cell transplant itself—lots of lab work and tests. The stem cell collection process will likely occur during December. I will still have two more rounds of chemotherapy in January before the stem cell transplant. We will have more details on the stem cell transplant timing and process after our meeting on Thursday.

We still have three to four months to go on this journey. Right now, the disease is gone—the rest of these treatments are to make sure it doesn’t reappear for as long a time as possible.