Day 17: I can't believe it's the last day of May. On May 1st Annie cleared out her locker at school and every day since she has been at the hospital. It's easy to lose track of time. Today her WBC went up to 0.6 and her ANC to 0.3. We are very grateful for the progress.
They have also begun to wean her off of some of the IV medications. She has had as many as five pumps going for weeks but today she was down to two and they took her off the pumps all together for four hours. Imagine, for over 25 days she has been attached to a pole and being free of that for those hours was very liberating.
Today I received an email from the Be the Match bone marrow registry where I am registered. It contained a copy of a letter a mother wrote to the college football player who was the donor for her one-year-old daughter. She writes, "Your blood is clearly running through my daughter's veins. She LOVES football...."
We have often joked with Annie about what it will be like to have a 30-year-old European man's immune system running through her. And lately we have noticed some weird things going on. For the past three days she has had what appears to be a mustache under her nose as seen above. Two days ago she also started sporting a bow tie and today she also was talking with a French accent for a while. Annie's a character under normal circumstances but one does wonder.
I keep saying she needs to take on a "second" middle name (think 30 yr old European male). So happy the numbers keep creeping up and that the Salmon clearly is a positive thing :-) You must excuse my French but Annie looks pretty badass in this photo! A true fighter.
ReplyDeleteJulianne's progress sounds great! And I hear she maybe going home soon! That would be fabulous or both you, Tom and Julianne!
ReplyDeleteJennifer if you can see this message can you send me that recipe that had the couscous, I loved it! Thanks Bill Catmanluge@gmail.com