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Here’s a pretty pink rose we saw the other evening as we walked through the hospital’s rose garden.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam and part of my famous Garden series.

The rose garden is a beautiful place.  They appear to plant every year’s award-winning roses.  It’s a large enough garden that they have several of each plant and many, many years’ worth.  Highly recommended.

Had a great day today.  The greatest day ever, in fact.  During our afternoon visit with our doctor, we learned that LRN4 is in remission!  He said there are no cancerous cells in her bone marrow.  Combine that with Thursday’s notification that her spinal fluid is cancer-free and we’re in amazing shape.  As mentioned in my note to our family this afternoon, tears were shed.  We’re still kind of in shock.  There is still road ahead of us, but today was a day we’ve been awaiting for a long, long time.  June 10, 2013 will be a day to remember.

Spent the evening at our previously-arranged joint birthday party with my cousin Betsy.  Her sister Cindy came over along with her daughter Julianna and Julianna’s husband Rick.  We had an outstanding dinner prepared by Bob, an excellent chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting prepared by Betsy, and hours of enjoyable conversation.  It was a great evening.  They even gave me some great gift cards from amazon.com and iTunes!  I can’t wait to figure out what to buy with them.

And that’s it for today.  The good news overwhelms everything else.  So I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: watermelon assault!

See you tomorrow.

Here are possibly the strangest flowers I’ve ever seen.  Do any of my Loyal Readers have any idea what these things are?  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam, taken at Longwood Gardens in January of this year, and part of my famous Garden series.

Great day today.  LRN4’s white blood cell count is up to 0.8, which is dangerously close to high enough to get out of the hospital.  She didn’t need either platelets or red blood cells today, so that’s another good sign.  Her new stem cells are starting to produce blood!

Had a great dinner tonight with LRN5 and family.  They really enjoyed their week in San Diego, and Clifford reports that it was relaxing for all of them.  LRN5 really needed a break, so I’m delighted for her.

Got my free honk suppressor in the mail yesterday.  Now I need to figure out what to do with it.  Can I make something electronic out of it?  I need help, Loyal Readers!  Give me an idea.  Please!

And it’s time for me to get to bed, so I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: pizza topping heist!

See you on Monday.

Here’s part of a water fountain at Longwood Gardens.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam, taken the day after my birthday last year, and part of my famous Garden, Machinery, and Statue series.

Great day today!  LRN’s white cell count is up to 0.5.  We’re looking for it to make it to 1.0 before the end of the month.  With that done, LRN4 free from needing blood products most days, and her able to get enough nourishment (which I think she’s doing already), we should be able to get out of here next week.  Fingers crossed!  We are so, so, SO ready to get out of here.

LRN5 and family will be back here in two days!  LRN3 will be here in three days!  It’s going to be an exciting weekend and week.  I’m really looking forward to it.  I wish LRN1 and LRN2 could be here too.  Maybe we’ll be together sometime soon.

And there’s nothing else in my life right now, so I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: toilet seat gum theft!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a dragon statue from one of the treehouses at Longwood Gardens.  Very intimidating.  Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam, taken last June, and part of my famous Statue and Garden series.

Another quiet day.  It looks like my package from Amazon arrived at my cousin’s house today.  That’s a great thing because I have a certain use for it the day after tomorrow.  I believe there may be another package coming from somewhere in Virginia in the near future too.  My kind cousin Betsy is planning to bring anything that shows up with her when she, her husband Bob, and a very special treat or two make their appearance.  Act surprised, LRN4!

LRN5 and family are coming in two days!  I can’t wait.  Don’t yet know what time to expect them, but I don’t think it will be before mid-afternoon at the earliest.  They’re driving down from the Bay Area and they’re not normally too keen on pre-dawn departures.  We’ll see.

I’m enjoying being in the hotel.  Very relaxing.  Very refreshing.  Very expensive.  But I don’t care.  I like the Residence Inn.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: schnitzel smuggler!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s some actual Great Art, painted here in the hospital by LRN4 during last week’s art class.  It reminds me a bit of a Van Gogh. Although she still has both of her ears.  Great Art courtesy of both LRN4 and the exclusive iPhone-cam and part of my famous Garden series.

Yeah, that’s a bit of a stretch, but flowers grow in a garden, right?  That’s what I thought.

Fine day today.  I moved out of Betsy and Bob’s house with deep gratitude and moved in to the Residence Inn.  Well, sort of, anyway.  My luggage is supposed to be in my room now and I expect to be there in a little bit more than an hour.  I’m really pleased to have a place of my own again, while I’m sure I’ll miss my kind relatives’ company.

LRN4 is feeling and appearing better on pretty much all fronts today.  There’s a little bit of new discomfort in her mouth, but her hands and feet are almost completely better.  Only a little sensitivity to heat remains.  That’s great!

The wait for recovery continues.  Things continue to look up.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: hot dog cart assault!

See you tomorrow.