Starting to engraft!!!! Lance's white count went to 0.4 this morning which means Nathan's stem cells are starting to grow!! They tell us that there is still not anything to fight infection yet, I guess they measure something called Segs. for that but it was still nice to have a positive today!! Thank you all for praying!!! Yesterday they raised the amount of anti-rejection meds. that Lance gets as they didn't feel he was getting enough. It is all a matter of balance now...... So complicated.... So glad there are so many smart people working here. Lance has been getting the same shots that Nathan had to stimulate cell growth and is feeling pretty sore and has a pretty bad headache tonight. Got a two bags of blood but didn't need platelets today.
We have been listening to a cd our church family did for us.... We are so thankful for all their love and support. We listen a little at a time to encouraging verses, jokes, songs, poems...... just hearing all our friends voices encouraging us is just awesome!! What a great idea. How blessed we feel to read emails, comments on the blog and to see the mail lady come each morning!! Thank you all!!!
So many people going through so much up here, we pray for them all and many are praying for us. Lance always has a smile and something nice to say to each one. I'm so proud of him, he has had such a great attitude!! Funny thing happen this afternoon, we are always looking for a good laugh.....anyway one of the nurses came in with a pack of toilet paper a gift from a patients family to each room here.....SOFT TOILET PAPER!!! Isn't that great!! One of life little pleasures! GOD IS GOOD!!! ---Penny
HOORAY for engraft!!!!! I was so excited to read this news! I am so proud of Lance, too. He's amazing. Continuing to pray...
ReplyDeleteNext thing we know we'll see you bumping Mr. Whipple to advertise that squeezably soft Charmin :-) I know!! we are aging ourselves again.
ReplyDeleteWe are rejoicing with you to see some of your hopes being realized.
Love, Rich and Nancy