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I have an appointment later today, and I will update if things change. But I doubt any of the main dates will change and I realized I didn't update on the current plan from last week. Cells were extracted successfully on August 1st. They were then frozen and sometime this month, they will be unfrozen and then engineered and multiplied into an army of CD-19 destroyers. The dates I was given are as follows: Car-t cell chemo:  Sept 13-15  (to knock off some of the current t-cells and make room for the new ones). Car t cell infusion of my engineered cells: Tues, Sept 18 Watch, observe, daily clinic visits: Sept 19-30+ Today, I hope to iron out some more off the specifics and plans. I hope to go through the plan for different scenarios depending on my response to infusion. This month I have Dr. Turtle, a friendly Australian doctor, who is the PI for the trial. This is the guy with all the knowledge and answers to specific trial questions. And while many answers haven't been re