During 3rd cycle of mini-BEAM.

Somehow, my bone-marrow was able to handle the mini-BEAM protocol (which is known to be extremly toxic to bone marrow cells) extremly well.

I did not feel too bad actually.
For example, I never needed to inject Neupogen during the 3 cycles of miniBEAM.
This was quite unusual, my MDs told me.

Anyway.

The date for my high-dose chemo had been set already: it was going to start on 1st of March, 2004.