It's Tuesday am 1:40 am. I'm not sleeping again. I had the bone marrow biopsy yesterday at ucla and dr eradat at 5:00pm. It hurt of course. The most painful part is when the doctor extracts the bone marrow. The doctor can not numb the bone marrow. so this hurt and hurt does it ever. Dr eradat thinks it's time to do the stem cell replacement. The bone marrow biopsy will tell us how far along the chemo treatment has taken me. Dr Vakil thinks it is 50% improvement. The bone marrow biopsy will confirm what the actual numbers are. The only thing is the wedding is in 2 months and that is what it would take to get the stem cell replacement.