We woke this morning with high hopes of getting enough stem cells harvested to check out of the hospital and go home.The nurse rolled in this huge machine and started to prime it with blood. She hooked Charlotte up to it and the noise was a little intimidating for her. She eventually got used to […]

We checked in to Doernbecher late last night. We got settled, they gave her her Neupogen, and started a blood transfusion. She randomly woke throughout the night and asked for peanut butter crackers. We woke early to a blood draw. A couple of hours later we learned all of her counts were up!! We would […]

I am writing this from home!!! PRAISE THE LORD! We were able to sleep in our own beds last night! (Well, I did for about an hour before Charlotte asked me to come to her room) Her counts weren’t ideal but her white blood count was 100 over what we needed it to be for […]