Making Progress

Since the weekend, there have been significant improvements in Nonnie's recovery. She is finally able to get more calories down by drinking Odwalla vanilla protein shakes. She continues to receive platelets on a daily basis in order to maintain the counts at or near 50,000. Even though she is still having fevers, her counts are not dropping to an unsafe level.

As of this afternoon, we learned that both her white and red blood counts are on the rise! The doctors are encouraged by this news, which indicates that her bone marrow is starting to produce again. There are no "blasts" visible in the blood draw and a bone marrow biopsy will be taken to confirm the effectiveness of this last treatment.

If things continue to go according to plan, the doctors told us today that Nonnie will undergo the same treatment again starting in two weeks. After that, they would then go into the "transplant" mode which includes typing and finding a donor for a bone marrow transplant.