engraftment

Day +42: Packing Up

It’s hard to believe, but we expect to be leaving the hospital tomorrow. It’s been a very long and painful …

Day +37: All By Herself!

Another milestone this morning. Zoe’s counts all went up today for the first time without any cell growth medication or …

Day +34

Still in the hospital, it’s looking more and more like we’ll be here ’til next week. Zoe continues to have …

Day +30: Chimerism

I had a post written up covering the last couple days while we were waiting for results, but now that …

Day +27: 11.1

Zoe’s WBC counts were at 11.1 today, which is significant for two reasons. One, she has white cells! Reason enough …

Day +25

Zoe’s WBC count hit 6.8 this morning, up 1.3 from yesterday. Just amazing. No ANC yet, we aren’t getting daily …

Day +24: All Quiet

Things are fairly quiet around here. Zoe is growing cells, and we’ve swapped again so that I’m back in the …

Day +21: Engrafted!

It’s been a really long couple of days, when they say “the kids have some pain during engraftment” they are …

Day +20

Well we appear to be on the right track, Zoe is growing cells pretty rapidly now. Her WBC count was …

Day +19: GOOOAAAL!

GOOOOAAAAAL Clearly Zoe is a soccer fan. We had a very bumpy day yesterday, the kids have a lot of …

Day +16

Everything is going well here. Zoe had physical therapy and she’s ready to explode we think, now that she’s starting …

Day + 15: All About ANC

Zoe’s WBC count was 0.4 (400) today. It’s her highest in a long time, since conditioning, and we are really …

Day +14: 0.2

Great news this morning, Zoe’s count is back up to 0.2 after holding at 0.1 for two days. Everyone is …

Day +13

We had a visit from Dr. S yesterday afternoon, and it was very positive overall. Zoe was feeling good and …

Day +11: Happy Fourth!

Zoe is doing well today, much improved from yesterday I would say. She is sleeping the day away, and that’s …