Robert Wagers aka Wage
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- Bob Ateah
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Thinking about you Wage and awaiting your return to good health and the RTTC community.
May your blessing be many.
Roland - The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- Robert D. Wagers
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Thanks Roland for the kind thoughts... it's nice to know others have me in their thoughts. It is very easy to feel alone or that the world just goes on without you... not missing a beat! You made me feel as though I wasn't forgotten.
Update:
Yesterday, I began the last round of marrow and stem cell harvesting. This process consists of 4-8 injections a day to stimulate the bone-marrow to shift into "overdrive" and produce many more cells than would normally be needed. As you can imagine, when the marrow goes into "overdrive," it produces severe bone pain and at times the pain is intolerable. Thank goodness I have some really good pain medicine.
On May 14th, I am scheduled to be admitted into the isolation ward of Vanderbilt and will remain there for about 6-8 weeks. Also on the 14th, I am scheduled to begin the "high-dose" chemotherapy. This will last approximately 7 days. May 21st is the estimated "0" day (or the day in which you've have been determined to be "bottomed out") and then the process of rescuing you with the collected cells begins. The chemo is designed to take your body to the brink of death (if you can imagine) and then build you back up from scratch. A process not unlike rebooting your computer when it's not acting right.
I have a very good support network in place and the members of RTTC are a vital part of that network.
Thanks again,
Wage - "Everyone has to get knocked-down every once-in-a-while, otherwise you'll never learn how to get-back-up!
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A quote attributed to my Grandpa Wagers
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- GollumX
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- Love ya Wage. Stay strong.
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- SureLurksalot
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Hey Wage!
Good Luck with your treatments man and lots of well-wishing from my family to yours.
You are in our prayer chain and have quite a few people pulling for you.
(you are not forgotten about)
Thanks for the updates on how your getting along and the steps of your treatments Wage.
And good luck with your "solitary confinement" period coming up. Stay germ free! - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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- Mike VanKirk
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Hang in there Wage! Keep your chin up and thanks for the update.
Mike
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- David White
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Hey Wage - Glad to see your update I was in fact thinking of how you were getting on this weekend.
Hopefully you get internet access in "isolation ward"
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