June 9, 2006

This week seemed to be a bit quieter than last. Over the weekend we took the kids to the movies and did some shopping. We went to a BBQ on Sunday at our new neighbors house. It was nice to get out some. Come Monday it was back to lab work and a transfussion of platelets. Samantha also needed her monthly IV therapy for prevention of pnemonia. She spent about 4 hours in the hospital having all that done on Monday evening. Luckily she sleeps through most of it with a pre-med dose of benadryl. Her white count has dropped to the point that she is at risk for infection so she can not have to much contact with people. We had labs done again yesterday (thursday) and for the first time in 3 weeks she did not need to go in for platelets. Hopefully this is the turn around and she will start recovering now. More labs will be done on Monday.
Her seizures seemed to have slowed down but still break through here and there. She has been having trouble keeping down breakfast but other than the morning hours she does pretty good throughout the day. Since her steroids have been lowered to .5 mg's a day she has been sleeping through the night. We will be returning to Memphis next Sunday on the 18th for a check up.
Thank you for all your continued support, please keep those prayers alive!!!
With Love,
Audra, Kurt, Christopher, & Samantha