Birthday--Plus Eleven

As horrible as things are here with my back and leg today and our horrific money situation with rent due in a week, I do have a little good news to report tonight. Sandi has felt a little better today. The ear has stopped hurting and the throat pain has subsided greatly. She got through most of the day with very few body aches and pains. Most importantly, Sandi's blood work shows a slight improvement.

Based on the blood work late last night and earlier today, Sandi is now officially off of zero.

This means her new immune system has triggered and has started doing what it needs to do to come back to life. At this point it has activated and she is as defenseless as a newborn baby. But, it came on. This had to happen for her to have any chance at all. The fact that it has now activated shows that the stem cells implanted themselves and have started doing something. While it will still be weeks, if not months, before we know if the stem cell transplant has worked and if she has more time with us all, the fact that things have started and she has come up off zero is a huge milestone.

What they will look for and work towards now is to get her numbers to climb. There is a risk that she could fall back to zero and crater again, but the belief is that will not happen. At this point, as I understand it, there are no symptoms they would expect to see that would indicate the possibility of that happening. So, at this point, they expect her numbers to start slowly trending upward.

One hopes.....