October 20, 2011 - Day 19

4 months, 2 weeks, 1 day since diagnosis
day #28 of current hospital stay



My baby is back :) My little girl is back from the ICU and she's back to me. She's smiling and talking and full of spunk like normal. I almost don't know what to do with her. Just like magic, she healed overnight.

She was going to be sent back down to 6 west on oxygen but she did not need any. We've gone down two steps with the morphine and she's tolerated it well. She's now on the lowest continuous dose that the current machine she is using will allow. She's doing awesome.

This morning, her WBC was over 1.5k and her ANC was 420. She is so close to engraftment and could be there as early as Sunday. Now, our only major hurdles are to get her weaned off the morphine and get her taking in enough calories by bottle to get off the TPN. What wonderful things these are to worry about.

Hopefully, we'll be out of here very soon :)