Wednesday, Chuck spent 8 hours off the ventilator. Thursday he was scheduled for 12 hours breathing on his own. In addition, he is talking. the doctors are amazed because there was concern about damage to his vocal chords from the ventilator tube. He is no longer in the intensive care ward but he is still being treated for pneumonia and DAH. He will eventually be transferred to the bone marrow ward. Khalifa and I conferenced in with Dr Polchi on messenger recently and Dr Polchi told me that when BMT is used for treating lymphoma that some host vs graft disease is necessary for the lymphoma to be wiped out. So, Chuck will have that to look forward to. It's a long road after BMT as we saw with Abdulwahab and it's a dangerous road at times. At least for the moment, things are looking up.