Sandi is Fourteen Days In .....

Today marks fourteen days for Sandi since she was admitted and they did the Stem Cell Transplant. Overall, things have gone way better than anyone expected or thought possible considering how sick she was when she left here. Despite feeling pretty sick at times, she has made over 20 chemo hats.

The hats seem to be a major rage there because a number of doctors, including ones not treating her, as well as other staff members have made the pilgrimage to her room to see them. Some of the doctors have taken a few to their patients to help them which is really cool and the rest have gone to the donation box in the infusion room on another floor of the hospital.

During her stay, from time to time, she has done a little teaching showing others how to make them. Hopefully, some of those folks will keep doing them after she leaves as the hats very popular. Unfortunately, there is quite the demand for them. 

She also made a small lap quilt too with some of the yarn she had left.

I hesitated to say this as I didn’t want to jinx things, but since she went and announced it on Facebook yesterday I guess it is safe to blab here. Sandi was originally supposed to be in the hospital for three weeks and then go to the extended care facility for at least two weeks. The third week of the hospital stay has now been canceled because her blood work is trending up so rapidly and she seems to be doing so well. At this point they plan on moving her over to the extended care facility that is located on the hospital grounds sometime Tuesday afternoon.

She will still be rather restricted in the extended stay facility but will have a little more freedom outside of her room--with extensive precautions---than she currently does in the hospital. Just another step on the road to coming back home where she belongs.