Thursday

   Just got some good news today. I am going home Thursday morning. I can't wait to get home and see Cuddles. Chat with everyone when I get home.

Another day

 I had another vistor last Saturday.He is such a cutie.

 I am thirsty after such a long ride,

 What's shaking outside Aunt Marla?

 Cuddles and I just relaxing.

Does this snapshot make my feet look big.

Things are starting to looking up as my white blood count is up to .3 as of Monday. I get a nypgon (sp) shot everyday until my white cell count gets up to 3.5. I don't know when that will be. They also found a virus in my blood yesterday and this is the antibioctits.(sp) This what it looks like.

  Sort of looks like orange juice. I think they gave me a couple of full bags.

  I also got a couple units of blood. Now I am getting......

Now I am getting some nutrition through a bag.

Just got some good news today. My white count came up to 1.2 today. I may get to come home this saturday if everthing continue to improve. I need to get out and so some walking and they want to my diarehia under control. My Physical therapist is supposed to come in later today and push my IV cart while I walk long. That is all for today.

Cards

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Hello Everyone it is Mary.  Keep those cards comming.  Above is the link.  Have a great weekend

Visitor

  I had a cute vistor last Tuesday. Her name is Sophie. She is a palmorian.

 She is a cutie. I told her owner she could leave her with me. Anyway I am still doing well. My white blood count was down to 0.7 on Tuesday. On Wednesday it is down 0.1. No change on Thursday. I haven't got my results in today. They come in around 4:30 to 5:00 am to wake me up and draw my blood. Lately I have been going back to sleep after they take my vitals and draw my blood. What this means I have no immune system right now. I have to put on a mask, gloves, and a gown when I go walking in the hall. It is a short hallway that I can walk in so I try walking at least for 30 minutes. Normal white blood cells are 3.5 to 10. It was up to 8.2 on Feb 6th. I am sure they will be this morning and let me know. I will let you know then. Everybody have a great day.  Amanda my cute student dr. just came in and my white count is still 0.1. Will get a nuphgon (sp) shot today and then my white count will start coming back up. It takes a few days for the shot to work though.

Happy Valentine

 I hope everyone has a great Valentine day. I got my valentine pj's on again. I will probably have them on all week.  Had a funny thing happen to me Saturday night (Sunday morning) . I think it was funny anway. I got into a fight with someone and rolled myself right out bed. I didn't hurt myself. thank goodness. Well now I wear a yellow bracelet that says FALL RISK. I have some fall flowers on my door show them falling. Guess that is what I get for telling the nurse. I even had the side rails up. Leave it to me and fight with myself.

I want to thank everyone for cards, phone calls and messages. They mean a whole lot to me. See everone later on. Time to go walking for 30 minutes.

Cuddles Visit

   Marla and Cuddles came up to today and visited me. Cuddles didn't like Jim my nurse for today. Cuddles would growl at him. Not sure if  the scrubs he was wearing or what. Maybe he thought Jim was going to harm me, or he thought Jim was a vet. We had a great visit. Hopefully they will make a return trip next Saturday.

Cuddles says he is tried and needs to rest from the long ride. I think he just liked laying on my Iowa Snuggie and having his belly rubed.

That's all for today. I am still doing great and feeling good. I walked up and down the hall for 30 minutes tonight.

HAPPY T-TIME

I had my transplant Friday and I am doing well. They started around 11 am and gave me a full 6 pack. I got back 6 little packets of my stem cells. I watched my first 4 packets flow in and then took a little nap while  I got the last two packets. They were all done about 1:30 pm.. That  small bag of pink is my stem cells.

They just hooked up to my IV and let it flow back into my arm. When all this was going on the nurse's brought me in a CERTIFICATE and sang a song to me. I should have grabed a photo of everyone, but they took me by shock and had me in happy tears. They signed it also. They are really treating me great up here.

But before all of this a had a happy visitor. No it wasn't Cuddles but a another cute guy.

His name is YUKI and I got to feed him some treats. He is such a beautiful dog and well groomed. I would hate to have to groom him all the time.

The lady has another dog that will bring up next week. I can't remember his name right off had, but you can be sure I will have photos of him also. Can't wait until Cuddles gets here in a few hours. I had better get some sleep.