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Posted 2014-10-22T11:11:22Z

October 22, 2014

Wow, what a crazy emotional day yesterday was for all of us.  It sure had its ups and downs emotionally.  

Tim did great.  Though he did not sleep at all the night before, he stayed awake the entire night and needless to say because he was awake so was I.  Yesterday I was running on pure adrenaline.  Tim and I arrived at the hospital just after 5 am and Terry met us in the surgery center. Tim handled everything like a champ.  He has never had any type of medical procedure done before so this was all new to him.  The doctors were able to get 700 CCs of bone marrow which is what they needed.  He went into surgery about 7:30 and was in recovery by 10. He had quite a bit of pain but once the pain meds kicked in he felt much better.  Terry and I stayed with him till about 11:30 and then I went up to be with Meghan.[...]

Posted 2014-10-21T00:57:57Z

October 20, 2014

It has been a crazy couple of weeks.  Meghan was admitted to the hospital this past Wednesday and began chemo the same day. From Wednesday to Sunday morning she had a dose of chemo every 6 hours then a different chemo drug yesterday morning and again this morning.  She handled it well till Thursday night.  Since then has been a real struggle for her.  She has not eaten since Thursday evening.  All of this is expected and normal, but not fun.  Tomorrow they will put a feeding tube in in order to get her some nutrition.  She is done with chemo till Wednesday, then will have two or three more days of it then DONE!! After that is it just a matter of waiting for her counts to go up and monitor her to ensure she has no side affects from Tim's bone marrow.[...]

Posted 2014-10-08T10:04:51Z

October 8, 2014

Lots has happened since my last post.  After the third round of chemo Meghan was home for a few days and then ended up back in the hospital for several days/nights.  She had another allergic reaction to a platelet transfusion and then developed a fever.  So she was admitted to the hospital until her ANC (the part of your blood that fights infection) went back up to over 200. For Meghan her's would drop to 0, which is expected.  During her stay she was treated with antibiotics until it rose.[...]