Total Body Radiation

Hello everyone, Jennifer is doing well today. On Friday she received the Radiation treatment and she was sick to her stomach in the morning but did better in the afternoon treatment. The treatment was a total body radiation and they had her set up on bike looking seat so they could place blocks on her to protect her kidneys and lungs. Its was hard to but she did it…. That’s my girl!

Her Saturday morning counts looks good, her white cells dropped from 4.3 to 1.5. The radiation worked.

Now comes the Chemo. She started it Saturday morning and she doing OK with it. She’s having some high fevers, chills and body aches with it but that’s to be expected. She had a good Sunday, they gave her some pre-meds to help and they did.

Her white cells are still dropping today and her kidney counts are going up a little. They are giving her 2 units of blood tonight to help some of her other counts.

Mary and I would like to say THANKS for all your thoughts and prayers, keep them coming, they mean a lot to Jennifer and us. Also, thanks to the Randel’s!!!!!!

You can send Jennifer an email greeting which will be printed and hand delivered to her by hospital staff by going to the following website:
www.texaschildrenshospital.org/parents/patientgreeting/default.aspx
and clicking “Create Message.” You do not need to have the room number, but do use Jennifer’s first and last name.

We will keep you updated.

Tim

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