I don’t think any update I could have given, yesterday, would have been as good as the post Kerrie put on. For those of you who are wondering.. Yes.. she typed it herself. It took her 10 minutes to do it, but she did it on her own with no prompting on the spelling or what to say. My only part in it was getting it on the page. The Admin page would be a little difficult for her, so she typed it in Word and we just did a little cutting and pasting into the Administration page. It’s been a pretty good day so far! We were both exhausted…

Hi I love you and will see you later kerrie

Emotional night for Kerrie… her speech seems to be much better than when I left, on Monday, but she’s still having a problem with using the correct words. She gets upset and very teary when we can’t understand what she is trying to tell us… makes me feel so bad. I can only imagine what it must be like for her. She had an EEG today, to check for seizure activity, but no results of that yet. Her platellets and white blood cell counts are low, so they gave her transfusions today.. and lots of benidryl to go with it. She seems pretty out of it, but most of that…

We have results of the MRI… shows no change in the infection, but does show one of her arteries may be a little closed ( Mom is that right?  Not sure I heard you right) It’s also been determined the positive blood cultures she had were probably the result of an infection from her PIC Line ( Permanent IV in her arm). They’ve been treating her with antibiotics and put a new PIC line in today. Someone, not sure which department, ordered a bunch of test for her including an EEG and another Spinal Tap… but they weren’t aware of the infection she had, so her BMT doctors aren’t going…

No real news today.. still no results of the MRI. Not sure what would take so long with it, but Mom’s 4:00 report had no information on it yet. I had actually already crawled into bed for the night, but decided I just couldn’t go to bed without at least putting something on here. I know people get frustrated when they check the page and there’s nothing here… so… dragged my old, tired, overworked body out of bed and crawled to the computer. I guess reading there is no news is better than not seeing anything at all and letting your imagination get the best of you. Mom did say…

I no sooner than finished the last post and Mom called… Kerrie has just come back from her MRI and is now laying in bed, eating dinner. I spoke with her, briefly, and she asked if I had gotten the e-mail she sent me today??? I immediately logged on my e-mail and there was one from Kerrie. Very simple… one little word.. “Hi”. It was enough 🙂 She sounded much better tonight and, although she is still having some identification problems, Mom said she’s doing better tonight as well. Mom had to leave the hospital, for a little while, earlier today and Kerrie was sitting with the laptop.. Mom wanted…

Unfortunately, no progressive news on Kerrie right now. Mom met with the BMT Team today and they are going to have Nuerology take a look at Kerrie, more CT-Scans and a possible MRI. The general belief is that what showed up on the CT-Scan at NOMC was already there before. Like everyone else, we want some answers… if this is nothing new why the sudden change in mental status, etc. We just don’t know yet. They are still looking at the other possiblities of seizure, Graft Vs. Host Disease, or any other physical change that could have caused this. Once again, Kerrie is giving them the “unexplainable”. I wish she…

Almost midnight, have just gotten home and have to get to bed… wouldn’t want to be late on the first day back from our vacation.. but wanted to give a brief update on Kerrie. No MRI’s or other testing done today. Kerrie is pretty stable and much more alert than last night ( But not as alert as she was yesterday afternoon). Mom and I tried to do some of her PT excersizes with her, but she kept saying she couldn’t do them and doesn’t remember doing them at NOMC. There was one excersize that I kept insisting she did at NOMC, and that I saw her do it myself…

We didn’t get to have our New Year’s Eve Party…. Kerrie is back at Henry Ford. Kerrie has been doing so well, looking better, sounding better,talking better, eating more, reading the newspaper, improving every single day.. so I have to say I just can’t #$%#& understand this.  I’m tired of having to live by the motto “Everything Happens For A Reason.” Yesterday was a good day, with lots of family visiting, and Kerrie in great spirits. Around 5:15pm…few minutes after our Grandmother, Uncle Dan, Uncle John and Aunt Rosemary left I walked into Kerrie’s room and she didn’t look right. Had a strange look on her face.. so, almost jokingly, I…

Kerrie’s ready for her Rockin’ New Years Eve party tonight and wants me to hurry back to the hospital, so I can help her decorate her room. So.. today’s post will be short. I have many family members to thank, for everything they did for Kerrie this Christmas, but will tell everyone about that in my post tomorrow. Andree’s & Whitney’s.. you are amazing and I definately want to share your gifts with everyone, so will write about it when I have more time. Have to get back as soon as I can… I know people check the site, sometimes several times a day, and wanted to make sure I gave you…