April 27 Day 2

Hi Everyone,
I am finally feeling good enough to write my own blog again. Thanks Deb for doing it for me!! I have not felt very good at all for the last 5 days. I have been feeling naseaous, had headaches and felt poorly from some of the meds. They changed my anti-fungal medication (the one that can cause "shake and bake" [high fevers and violent shaking from chills]) because it has caused readings in my kidney to go up too high. The drug they will go to has hardly any symptons so I don't have to worry as much with this one. They had a big reunion of many of the people who were cured at City of Hope and were expecting 5,000 to 6,000 people. I am looking forward to going next year and my brother just said he'd go with me!!! Several of the reunion people came by and encouraged those of us who are being treated now and it was very nice to hear about their success. I have been playing my guitar in here (starting yesterday) and singing praise songs and have been blown away by the number of people who enjoyed hearing it. Some had congregated outside my room and were applauding!! Go figure! I don't do it for any reaction, I do it to worship God and it's cool to know that others enjoy it as well. The nurse's assistant that has been caring for me is a Christian and has encouraged and prayed for me, which is really cool. He says that there are other Christians on the floor and the lady next to me asked him to have me do the praise songs out in the hall so she could hear better. Unfortunately I am confined to my room until my counts go up as my white counts are at zero now, so I couldn't oblige her, but maybe I can come up and do it for her after I get out of the hospital and am in the village. The village is a group of rooms with 2 beds and a kitchen that we'll be staying at when released from the hospital and it's on the grounds here. Things are progressing as they should (so the doctor says) but I'm just getting impatient. God is good though and He will be with me the whole time. Thank you for your prayers and may God bless you all.
In His hands,
Ernie