Overall blood counts were good today- no transfusions were needed today but they may give her some blood on Friday. Platelets dropped a little more today but not as much as they have been so the doctor thinks that her body may be starting to produce them (yeah!!!). The liver enzymes are still an issue but they adjusted her medications a little- hopefully this will help some.

Terry is back at Jodi's- she was discharged Saturday evening after getting platelets and will go back to the clinic tomorrow. Her blood cells are doing good and platelets were still low but will hopefully pick up soon. Right now she is feeling really tired and her legs are bothering her, hopefully she will get some strength back soon.

The test for cytomegalovirus (CMV) came back positive so they believe this is where her fever has been coming from. They are giving her medication and she may be discharged on Sunday if all goes well. Most of her blood counts look good but the medication they are giving to treat the CMV may actually lower platelets even more. They are tentatively giving another platelet transfusion on Saturday. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.

Right now we are waiting for results of the cultures they have taken. They started a variety of different antibiotics hoping to cover anything that might be causing the infection. The cultures don't look to be growing anything yet, but they observe them for 4 days and then if they still turn up nothing they will suspect that it is graft vs. host. Blood counts were good today but she did receive a bag of platelets. We'll let you know as we learn more.

Today Terry spiked a fever of 101.9. After calling the clinic they told her to go to the ER at UCSF. They are running lots of tests trying to find a source of the infection and are likely admitting her tonight. Thanks for praying we'll let you know when we hear more.

Terry was discharged today! She will be staying close to the hospital at Jodi's and goes back to the clinic on Friday. Her white blood cells are looking good but platelets are still low, they will have platelets ready for her on Friday. Thanks for praying.

More good news today!! White cell count up to 5.5, may be discharged on Wed!!! We'll keep you posted.

Good News!

Today we got some good news...... Terry's white blood cell count, which has been at 0.1 for a very long time, went up to 0.5!! This is probably the new cells at work! She's still having a few side effects from the chemo and her hair is beginning to fall out again. But she did get to see some fireworks from one of the family rooms on the floor. Thanks for praying- hopefully we'll be updating with more good news soon.

Things are getting better- today she was able to eat more- mostly because the nurse practitioner told her that they were going to start IV nutrition if she couldn't start eating. Her throat is pretty sore from the chemo. The doctor said that we should start seeing her blood counts rise next week, they started medication to stimulate production yesterday so let's hope we see some results soon!