so Abigail is A negative blood type but no word yet if the donor will give more cells.

 ...this means they can give her all the donors blood instead of taking out the red blood cells, which loses lymphosites. which is what they need to keep attacking her remaining cells.  her blood work today was good wbc 3.7 hemoglobin 10.6 platelets 136,000 anc 2600 everything has gone up a little. she is very excited for christmas, she has already gotten a few gifts from some amazing people, the Araizas. santa comes on saturday still, she deserves it. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! (from Mom- Candice)

December 10th, 2010 from Candice, Abigail's Mom

Even though I reported Abigail is 100% donor i asked the doctors if they could give her more cells anyway to be sure her cancer cells are gone. It was decided with some convincing that they will give Abbi more cells. We will be risking again graft versus host disease, but that is a risk we are all willing to take. they will keep giving her donor lymphocyte infusions until her immune system is strong enough to fight remaining cancer cells on its own. they have a request in to the donor for more cells. this time they only have to take blood because it will contain the lymphocytes, and hopefully give it straight to Abbi. Doctors have to check her blood type because now Abbi has a whole different immune system and new marrow, so being all donor cells she should have converted to the donors blood type, which they think is A- negative. they have to check this because if for some reason she is not converted they have to deplete the red blood cells which loses some of the lymphocytes. but we are confident she will be the donors blood type now. she is doing well and very energetic. she just got just dance 2 on the Wii from grandma Kate so she has been dancing. 

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone.

A final note from Abbi's Mom, Candice

Sunday, December 5th, 2010 2:34 PM

quick update, abigail is 100% donor and they won't be giving her more cells. pray she stays that way. will update soon

This is Grandma Mary:  WOO, HOO!! ALL PRAISE GOES TO GOD!!!

Abigail's counts are way up!

Hi everyone! Abbi is doing great! we are in san francisco now she had a bone marrow biopsy yesterday to see where her engraftment is and she is recieving ivig right now. her blood counts are good, i drew blood on monday and her platelets had stayed the same at 135,000 her hemoglobin was up a little at 9.8 her anc and wbc had gone down but that is fluctuation which is normal, so during her biopsy yesterday they also drew a cbc and her platelets have gone up to 141,000 and her hemoglobin up to 10.4. it is all gonna go up and down, but her platelets are what they watch. they need to keep going up. so they have requested more cells from the donor to bump abbi to 100% no word yet they will know by the time they get the results of biopsy back. if for some reason the donor is not available then they will give her immune therapy which is the opposite of prograf, it stimulates her immune system to wake up and fight and hopefully cause gvhd, just a little. they checked her t cell and b cell funtion today, drew 7 tubes of blood, so that might make her hemoglobin drop a point or 2. probably too early still for her immune system to be normal again. and she has too much iron in her blood from all of the transfusions over the yrs. so once her hemoglobin is at 11 they will start getting rid of her blood to throw away the iron. abbi is asking to use the computer so have a great day and god bless! Candice (Mom) Later after we got home it was reported that Abigail's bone marrow testing revealed she is 100 percent donor now!  PRAISE GOD's DIVINE HEALING GRACE!!