Saturday Morning Post

No, no morning version of Norman Rockwell being posted here...Just spoke with Trish and she is doing ok. Some aches and pains to report -- she and Andy will both be getting some oxycodone today. The good news is that her counts have started coming up -- though we will expect them to bounce up and down over the next week. Her white counts hit 70 today and as a result I have started tracking the counts post transplant. If you have no clue what I am talking about -- look for the Links box in the left column and click on "The Counts". Once Trish's counts reach 500-1000 and she has Neutrophils she will be discharged. Katie, her nurse today, is guessing that may be as short as a week away -- maybe two.

Andy is doing well, crabby, but well. His surgery wounds stopped oozing, so I was able to put a smaller bandage on this morning, I need to run out and get a bigger Tagaderm though...two of the wounds are too close for two small bandages and one big one would work better (I think, hope)...

Tonight's the big dance. Not sure yet if we'll make it depends on how Andy is doing. I'd like to thank everyone who helped put it together or is working to make it a success. You know this whole part of this thing is the worse. We're just not used to being in need and its not a good place to be. We are very greatful to everyone who has come to our aid and hoping that in a years time our lives will be back to normal, we'll be visiting an incredibly nice fireman and we can all relax a little.

One more note on the silent auction items, we did not get a great online response to the bidding. Many of the sports items have a minimum bid and that's not us being greedy, the teams set a minimum value/bid that can be accepted on the donated items -- we are obligated to follow their rules and we must report back certifying how and how much the item was auctioned for. If any of the items fail to meet the minimum bidding required at the dance tonight, we may put them back on-line and maybe with some promo from Lebby they will go. New items kept pouring in this week and there were many that didn't even get posted to the web site.