Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Day +47: Bad News, Bad Day

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The chimerism results are in and they are not good. The neutrophils that have been growing are only 20% donor. The rest is Ezra. The percent...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

Days +41 to +44: Sleepless in New York

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We never expected to get much sleep in the hospital, but some nights are decent and some nights there is basically no point in sleeping. Lat...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Days +37 to +40: Breaking Out...

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Into the hallway, that is. With his counts on the up, the doctors encouraged Ezra to start walking the halls at night when there are less pe...
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Friday, June 22, 2012

Days +35 to +36: Ezra's Blast Off

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Today Ezra is officially considered to be engrafted! His neutrophil count was .7 today. It has increased by a tenth each of the past few day...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Days +33 to +34: Slowly I Grow, Tenth by Tenth

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Ezra's neutrophils made it to .5 this morning! They went to .4 yesterday and were at .5 today. We are grateful, excited and relieved, bu...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Days +31 to +32: I Spy Neutrophils

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Good news came on Father's Day - Ezra's neutrophils went from .2 to .3. Finally, some movement! Maybe it was everyone's prayers ...
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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Days +28 to +30: Stalled

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There has been no growth in Ezra's neutrophils since the small increase on Tuesday. The level hasn't decreased, but it hasn't go...
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