Out of the hospital!

Hello Family and Friends,

Sorry it has been awhile since I updated, things have been busy with all the changes.

Jennifer’s headaches were under control enough that she got out of the hospital on Friday. SHE IS OUT! We are now staying in an apartment close to the hospital because her blood counts are still very low. She will have to go to the clinic almost daily for blood or platelets, and then next week she will be receiving more stemcells. She has been running a low fever at night and anything over 100.5 we have to go back to the hospital. They have been between 99 and100.4, by midmorning they go away.

On Saturday I started getting the neupagin injections to get my body to produce more white blood cells. I will receive them for 3 to 4 days. Today I was tested and I was not ready to give, they will take them tomorrow. I’m having some discomfort with them, so they gave me different medicines to help this time.

They had changed Jennifer’s headache medicines before she left the hospital, which helped for a few days. Now they are coming more frequent again. She probable will keep having them till her counts go up, they dropped more today (ANC was 80,white cells at .14). They gave her some neupagin to bust them up.

Although she is feeling weak, when the headaches are gone her sprits are high!

Thanks
Tim

PS… Mary’s cell phone is up and running
PSS… Grandma and Grandpa pictures with Jennifer are on page 3 on the web site

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