They did the bone marrow biopsy at 2:00pm today.. and she definately had sedation. When I spoke with Mom, a little after 8:00, Kerrie was still sleeping. She’d been out since the procedure. We probably won’t have any results for a few days… we’ll just all have to keep our fingers crossed until then. It turns out shehad a visitor today, just minutes before the biopsy.. Kit Hildebrandt. Her second visitor, since she’s been in the hospital, and she has to go and get sedation for a silly procedure. Kit, we’re so sorry you showed up and then had to leave. Kerrie would have loved to have spent more time…

Not much to say today… Dr. Jana is looking over everything, Infectious Disease is going to take another look at Kerrie and, as usual, they have no definate answer to what is going on right now. One thing they’ve said is that they are going to do another bone marrow biopsy in the next few days. Although, the last one showed no sign of the Leukemia they are going to check again. Mom keeps telling me not to worry, until we’re given the words we don’t want to hear, but I can’t help it. Her blood counts keep going lower.. but she’s still keeping her spirits up. At least in…

Happy Mother’s Day!  Hmmm.. Mom had to go to work and Kerrie’s the one who got breakfast in bed. Something wrong with that picture… Spent part of the day with Kerrie, yesterday, and then took our nephew TJ to the movies for his birthday. He turned a whopping 10 a few days ago… meant to put a post on here for him, but was overwhelmed at work.. as usual. Happy belated birthday TJ. Dad and Joyce spent the afternoon with Kerrie and Ron stayed with her part of last night. I got back to the hospital, at 11:00pm, just in time to wake her up and kiss her goodnight. I…

Got in at close to 3:00am.. now rushing around trying to get ready to go see Kerrie. The Relay for Life event was amazing, and the people on the Champion Schools Team were an incredible group. While I sit here, being tired, THEY are still out there… walking..with 8 1/2 more hours to go. I have lots of pictures to share, and would like to tell you a little more about the event, but want to get out of Mom’s house and go see Kerrie.. so that will have to wait. Mom, I moved your comment from my last post and have put it in this blog. It’s pretty important and I wouldn’t want…

Up and down.. up and down.. everytime things start looking up they go back down. Kerrie’s white blood cell count is down again today and her face is swollen up again. Krystal, the BMT Nurse Practitioner,  pointed out that every time Kerrie’s white blood cell count goes back up the swelling goes down.. the blood cell count goes down and the swelling goes up. Ups and downs everywhere she turns it seems. They feel the drop in cell counts/swelling have everything to do with this infection they can’t seem to put thier finger on. It’s possible they are going to do a biopsy of the sinus, near the left ear,…

I’ve been meaning to put something on here, about Relay for Life, for at least two months and I keep getting so busy that I forget about it.  Relay for life is an event held accross the US and Canada. I know several people taking part in these events, in their home cities, but there is one team I want to make sure you know about.  Marce, a woman I work with, is heading up a team for the event to be held this weekend and they are doing something very special. Here’s a little info Marce sent me on what they will be doing: Relay For Life is the…

Tuesday night Kerrie was looking great, sounding good, feeling good and they were even talking about sending her home Thursday or Friday. She was doing great.. then came Wednesday morning. When she and Mom woke up this morning, she wasn’t looking very good, was having some trouble with speech, using a very “soft” voice and generally not feeling very well. She’s running a temp again, they’ve got her on antibiotics, and plan to do another chest x-ray. Plans for a return home on Thursday or Friday are out.. looks like Kerrie and I will be spending our weekend together at Henry Ford.  Keep your prayers coming, and your fingers crossed,…

Phone rings at 9:15am and it’s Mom.. “Am I catching you at a bad time?” Hmm.. let me see. I work at an Amusement Park. It’s May. We open in a few weeks. Umm.. yeah.. anytime you call, while I am at work, is a bad time. But.. since I am at work until at least 11:00pm, every night, I suppose I can allow the phone call 🙂 Mom sounded in good spirits this morning and it sounds like she and Kerrie had a pretty good day yesterday. She was hoping for the same today. Joi was Kerrie’s nurse today, so they were planning another shower for Ker-bear ( have…

Another day at good ole HFH. :)  Woke up about 4 am with the crew standing around Kerrie, taking vitals, getting blood work, etc. Then next thing I knew it was 7:30. Up for breakfast, Ker that is, I had to get coffee first. Planned on getting her into the shower, but the usual swinging door of doctors, nurses, dieticians, etc. started. Finally ready to move when the nurse, Brad, came in with IV’s. Regular replacement of magnesium to be followed later with potassium. Figured we were done with any plans to get up………but good old Joi, Ker’s special nurse, came in and said, “Naw, we can do it.” and…

Got to say a “chocolaty chippy” hello to my beautiful sister tonight… she’d been splitting a chocolate chip cookie ,with her favorite brother, when I called and was licking the chocolate off her fingers 🙂 She sounds pretty good tonight and Mom says she’s doing much better than yesterday. When I asked her what she had done all day she said she had mostly laid around but that she thought it must have “done the job.” We both agreed it’s going to take some hard work to get back into the swing of Rehab, but that she needs to take it easy right now. She can work twice as hard…