Coming home tonight!

It has been a slow recovery for Mom this time around.  She has been getting a little bit stronger each day and her counts are slowly starting to recover.  She's been begging the doctors to let her go home.  She's been there for over 6 WEEKS now and is so ready to leave that little room.  The hospital is great and the staff is wonderful, but it's impossible to feel okay in any small room for that amount of time.  She now has some neutrophils showing up in her blood so they said she can go home tonight!!

Dr. Jessica (Mom's main doctor) came in this afternoon and chatted with Mom and Julie for a little bit.  She agrees it's time for Mom to go home.  As great as this is to hear, Jessica said she's also concerned about how slowly Mom's counts are coming back.  She said, "The bone marrow is not recovering as briskly as we'd like and I think that's because there are still leukemia cells in there."  She said there are still options if that is the case.  Dr. Jessica told us a couple months ago about a new clinical trial drug that she was very excited about.  We don't know any details but at this point we know Mom gets to come home and that they are going to see how she does over the next week.  No new bone marrow biopsy is schedule at this time but they'll probably do one within a couple weeks.  Julie said things were positive and hopeful during their conversation with Dr. Jessica and Mom felt okay with it all.  She just wants to get out of there!  Taking things 1 day at a time!

For now, Mom comes home tonight (YAY), she rests and gets to be with family and friends, she will have home healthcare come to her house every other day to take care of her needs and draw her blood, and she has an appointment scheduled for next Wednesday with Dr. Jessica at Northwestern. 

Please continue to pray with us for Mom's health to improve and for this cancer to be out of her system for good.