Starts Chemo again today

Hello Family and Friends,

Sorry for the long delay in updating the web page but it’s been a long week.

Jennifer started Chemo today and she will receive 5 days of Chemo, 1 day of rest and she will get Mary’s stem cells next Tuesday. Jennifer’s fever is better, it hit 101.4 yesterday and it’s been at 99’s most of the day. She is still having stomach problems 2 or 3 times a day but the medicine is helping.

Mary has had a tough week, she started having stomach problem on Sunday. She was having bad headaches and muscles pains. Her cells where not ready to be collected on Monday but she had to spend most of the day getting fluids because of the stomach problems. Tuesday counts looked good and they pulled the cells from her but they had a lot of trouble with her vain collapsing. It took 7 hours to collect the cells. We went back today for one more round and things went a lot better today. Mary is feeling better tonight.

They pulled 5 million cells from Mary in the past 2 days; the Doctors wanted 10 million. We talked with Dr. Krance tonight and he feels the 5 million is enough to get Jennifer engrafted and in a few weeks we will go back and get more cells from Mary.

So now we wait and pray and help Jennifer get through the chemo.

Thanks to all and GODBLESS.

Tim

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