Update--Big Week Coming Up!

Yup, it's a big week, so I'll try to give a little update every day.  Here's the progress over the weekend:

Those long-awaited blood counts are finally on the move!  Less than a week ago the ANC (remember? they're the infection fighting ones) were 0.0 and this morning they're 700!  Yay!  Of course, the norm is more like 2500, but they're on their way.  Total white blood cells are over 2,000 and platelets and red cells are also up on their own (i.e., no transfusions needed).

Also this morning something is conspicuously absent in the hospital room--no i.v. pole!  No antibiotics, no i.v. nutrients, no fluids, no painkillers, no anti-nausea--and none needed!  After being tethered for a month she's finally free as a bird!  Well okay, a bird in a hospital room, but free-ER.

The bone marrow biopsy--the gold standard of where we're at to date with the leukemia--is tomorrow morning.