Jennifer makes me a birthday cake

Hello Family and Friends,

Here’s the latest from Houston. On Thursday Jennifer received Stemcells (Timcells) at 2pm and 7pm and everything went well. They kept her overnight and she received 2 units of blood Friday morning and she was able to go home (apartment) later that day. She is having trouble with her port lines in her chest and it’s causing her a lot of pain.

Saturday she had a good day, we all sat down and had breakfast together, she wanted to make me a birthday cake and she did! AND IT WAS GOOD! Mary, Elaine and her also made a special dinner for me. She only had 1 headache for the day and her smile was the best present I could ask for and I got it!

Jennifer went to the Doctor today and she needed platelets. Her counts went up a little, her ANC was 115 (that’s up from 70 on Friday) WE NEED 500! Her white cells are at .25 and that’s up from .14 from Friday, we need 3.0. She has been fighting headaches all day today.

She is still having a lot of trouble/pain with her lines and we will see what the Doctors want to do tomorrow to help. She will also need blood on Monday.

Keep praying for her counts to go up. We are!

Thanks
Tim

note: the above entry is a copy originally posted on our ‘Caring Bridge’ website.