Thursday, October 28, 2010

Abigail recovers in record time!

Here is the newest message from Abigail's Mom on progress:

yesterday was abigail's doctor appointment. post transplant day+56. she is doing great! her platelets are climbing. her wbc and anc (white blood cells and absolute neutrophil count) are up and down but that is to be expected. those don't usually completely recover till almost a year post transplant. her lymphosytes are climbing which suggests to them that she has some graft vs lukemia going on in her body. just means that her new marrow is killing whatever is left of her lukemia cells. and we are tapering her prograf. down .5 every week. till she is completely off by dec 8th. i guess that is very aggressive, by day 100. usually kids stay on it for 6 months. and this will be about 3 months. they do want her to have a little gvhd. just the skin and gut. she would get a rash and some stomache pains, diareah maybe nausia. 
so tuesday the 2nd she is having a bone marrow biopsy to make sure she is 100% donor there also. and on nov 3rd is her monthly ivig (immune booster) then we get to go home for at least 2 weeks.