News of Hope Arrives...

Abigail from 1st BMT in 2008

It is happening! her cells are engrafting and it is time to talk discharge! although they are still hoping for graft vs host disease, even if they let her go to family house and monitor her she still has time to get it. and if they don't see any by end of month they will give her more stem cells, since they have extra frozen. they are gonna push this gvhd and i pray she gets some. they think they can give it to her. and depending on the severity (which mild is great) but they have no idea how it will present itself, she might have to be back in hospital. but if she just gets some skin rash or some gut gvhd i think they will be able to treat her outpatient. either way i don't care just as long as she gets it. even though they still say it is a small chance for cure, i believe it is a great chance for cure! because with jesus all things are possible! they will check her to see if any lukemia cells survived. she did get a very potent mixture of chemo and it wiped out all lukemia cells they could see, and the stem cells are going to do their job and wipe out the rest. that is where the gvhd can come in and be helpful at killing the rest of them. but i pray that none of them survived and they were wiped out, never to return! because this little girl deserves to go home to her friends and family and live a normal life! and that is exactly what she will do. will update later