This is Ray yesterday, texting on his phone from the PACU.  We were at NIH.  They did a bone marrow aspirate.  A number of his counts have been trending down and they are not sure why.  They don’t think that it could be the IGF-1 protocol he’s been on, but they are not sure.  It’ll be a while before all the results come back.  We’re home again today and he’s sore, but otherwise feeling fine.  I keep telling him he needs to get up and walk to feel better.  Taking marrow from him is pretty much what they did to me 3 times in order to take marrow for his transplants, only they had to poke through my hip bone more times and take a lot more marrow out.  After going through this 3 times, I’ve learned that walking is the best way to make the pain go away.