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		<title>News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Family &#38; Friends,
We&#8217;re home &#8212; very grateful to be here and beginning slowly to recover our strength.  Both of us are completely and utterly exhausted as well as traumatized by the whole experience which was much, much harder the second time around.
On the (really really) good news front, Barry&#8217;s bone marrow biopsy of August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interim Update – We’re Going Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Family and Friends,
Yesterday we got confirmation that we can move back home the weekend of August 21/22, just a few days shy of 100 days post-transplant.  We&#8217;d been asking about this for a while but they didn&#8217;t want to give us the OK until Barry&#8217;s CMV was undetectable for two weeks, which it now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agauchepress.com/2010/08/05/august-5-2010-%e2%80%93-interim-update-%e2%80%93-we%e2%80%99re-going-home/</link>
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		<title>AROUND THE CORNER &#8211; EIGHTY DAYS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the apocalyptics say: &#8220;The end is near.&#8221;  It&#8217;s getting close. Tomorrow will be eighty days since my second transplant! We will soon go home. Bonnie is feeling like a prisoner. She gets to visit her friends every two weeks or so. When that happens, I get a visit from Sam, who cooks up something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agauchepress.com/2010/08/05/around-the-corner-eighty-days/</link>
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		<title>Five Years But Who&#8217;s Counting?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Family &#38; Friends,
Today is exactly five years from the date of Barry&#8217;s diagnosis of CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia).  The good news is that he&#8217;s still here, feeling good and looking good.  The bad news is that we&#8217;re still dealing with this shit.
Last Monday we got the results of the second chimerism (engraftment) test and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agauchepress.com/2010/07/25/five-years-but-whos-counting/</link>
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		<title>SO, YOU THINK YOU’VE GOT PROBLEMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One Friday night, my PICC line was clogged.  We had to go to the hospital as the Cancer Center was closed. (The nurses couldn’t unclog it and I needed a clog-busting enzyme to roto-rooter it out.) While we were waiting for the doctor’s orders to inject the enzyme, a young Hispanic man shuffled wearily into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agauchepress.com/2010/07/01/so-you-think-you%e2%80%99ve-got-problems/</link>
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		<title>The Leukemia Diet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you a couch potato? Have you grown too large for your Snuggy™? Do you hate to exercise and prefer cultivating bedsores? You like to eat carbs but you still want to lose weight. I have just the diet for you!
You’ve heard about leukemia and lymphoma, I’m sure. But what you may not realize is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100% Engraftment &#8212; Still a Long Ways To Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Family &#38; Friends,
We received terrific news on Friday.  Barry is fully engrafted, meaning his (angel) donor&#8217;s stem cells have taken over and he can now  begin to recover.   This is a milestone that he never reached on his first transplant and it is the reason he was given a tougher pre-transplant regimen this time. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agauchepress.com/2010/06/27/100-engraftment-still-a-long-ways-to-go/</link>
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		<title>A STIR-CRAZY NINE DAYS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m baaack! Just when you thought it was safe to go on my blog and get the objective facts from Bonnie, here I am to give you the unexpurgated (well not quite — I do expurgate a bit) version of The Hospitalization starring an award winning cast including a beleaguered, overworked 24/7 caregiver, a team [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agauchepress.com/2010/06/18/a-stir-crazy-nine-days/</link>
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		<title>Nine Fun-Filled Days at Stanford Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Family and Friends,
Barry and I got home on Tuesday after spending 9 days in virtual isolation in the hospital.  He had fevers, headaches, chills, sweats, intestinal problems, etc., not to mention the anxiety and depression.  While we may never exactly know what the diagnosis was/is, he&#8217;s much better.  The theory we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://agauchepress.com/2010/06/17/nine-fun-filled-days-at-stanford-hospital/</link>
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		<title>ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 20, 2010: It is day +2 post transplant. I have a slight nausea and a persistent headache that is more annoying than debilitating. I am consuming about 30 pills a day and god only knows what they are doing. I drink about three liters of liquids per day and most of them taste pretty [...]]]></description>
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