After two days and nights of intense pain, which appear to have been caused by a kidney stone, Christi is considerably better today. Her blood counts are still practically zero, but there are no leukemia blasts in the peripheral blood. We're anxiously awaiting the blood counts to start up, and when they do, the doctors plan to do a DNA test to see if the new cells are from the stem cell donor or from Christi. If they are only from the donor, that may mean that the transplant was not a failure after all.
There is no projection on when she might get out of the hospital, and since this is the 14th week of continuous hospitalization, it's beginning to get rather old. We hope things have improved within the next two weeks for her to go home. We'll just have to wait and see. Someone continues to stay with her around the clock, and that has not been too bad as there is a chair-bed in the room which is pretty confortable.
We still covet your prayers that she will start to produce good blood cells and be in remission.
Thank you all for your cards and notes. Christi is now feeling like reading them.
God bless you all,
Layton
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