Jen perked up a bit today. She is on her 3rd walk around the pod. Not a long distance but any amount of walking is good. She managed to eat 1 1/2 jellos and string cheese. The eggs I got her this morning, she promptly spit out.

Jennifer will get a platelet transfusion today. We have been watching those numbers and knew she would need it. This morning her bp was normal and currently temp at 99.7. I don’t know if it is on its way up or down. I’ve lost track. She is very tired and fatique but comfortable with nausea at a minimum. Hopefully we have a quiet day as Jessica is coming to visit. We miss her!

The days seem to repeat themselves. We go from no fevers to fevers. No stomach pain to back again. Heart rate up and then back to normal. Her ability to eat seems completely lost but has been taking in a lot of fluids. They did find an infection from her blood cultures but haven’t found what exactly the infection is. She is on an antibiotic (vancomycin ) but she is also having a reaction to it (called Red Man Syndrome…literally she is red(er) from head to foot). This reaction is being combated with bendryl.

Good evening. Most of the day Jen has spent resting but was able to take a couple short walks in the hallways. Her heart rate has been a bit elevated this evening so they are increasing her fluids and keeping a close eye on it. They did an ekg and results looks good. More fevers this afternoon but morning blood draws have not produced any results. She also has been battling more stomach pains. All this is to be expected with the radiation and chemo and low white counts. Hopefully the docs and nurses can keep on top of it all until her counts come back up. Continued prayers as we move forward into the next few days.

Good afternoon. The day is going rather quickly considering Jennifer and I slept until about noon. Early morning vitals started just before 4am and led to a long drawn out people coming and going .

Jen already hadn’t been sleeping well. She said her mind was thinking about her donor and what she might write to thank him. Then she started having some stomach pain that kept her awake. At four, the PCA found she was running a low grade fever and her BP was a bit elevated. Blood draws from all three central lines were done, antibotics started. They also did a chest xray because Jennifer had a bit of a cough. Most of the time was spent with three different people attempting to find a vein to take blood also directly from the vein.

Jennifer did well today. She had no bad reactions and vitals stayed strong. The days ahead she will need to battle through having no immune system and low platelet and hemoglobin counts. But she is a rock! And her faith in God unwavering.

As if I haven’t already said enough in the last 24 hours, the one I haven’t been able to truly thank is Jen’s anonymous donor. Over the course of the next 365 days, we can only have correspondence with him through Be The Match. And cannot share our names, where we live, or other facts that may tell him who we are. We can write letters and Be The Match will go over them and make sure they approve.

Last night when the donor’s marrow arrived here at the hospital, I wrote a short letter. And although I know it will be sent, I don’t know how much will reach him. I share it here now, as for some reason, that makes me feel better….like somehow I am sending it into space to be boomeranged back to him.