Bone Marrow Biopsy

Sorry for the wait, everyone! 

Want to start with congratulating my parents on 38 years! They celebrated their anniversary last Friday :)

Results from the CT Scan (done Thurs): The lung "spots" looked better, as in they are shrinking. This is an encouraging sign! But in the left lung they said that because of some fluid build-up, she has a damaged lung. The repair of this will take some time and will be slow moving (as counts come up it will help repair this). The doctors say that what they have been doing to treat the pneumonia and lung issues seems to be working and they plan to stick with it.  She is not feeling any pain or does not have any issues breathing, coughing & is not on oxygen, so that's good! Clinically this is good for them to see, but if there are any changes with these things, then they will take the next steps. Basically, they are keeping a close eye on the infected areas of the lungs and there is a cause for concern like there has been since we've been here - but we are happy with the positive progress & report that things look better and she has shown no signs of clinical effects (breathing, coughing, fevers are down)!

Because of the pneumonia - they decided to perform a bone marrow biopsy today. It was done at 11:30 am and it went really well!  We should have results by tomorrow afternoon or Wed morn. Praying for clean marrow! If she is clear of leukemia, they can start giving her other medicine to help her white cell production and fight the pneumonia better!  This is the obvious prayer for today! For the chemo to have worked and put her into remission - leukemia free!

Counts are the same since the last time we updated - no specifics on when she will be coming home yet, but hoping soon! It would just be so wonderful to get her out of this room ;) We anticipate that day!

Thanks for the prayers and we will try and update ASAP on the results of the bone marrow biopsy when we get it.....