Abigail breaks out!

If all goes according to plan the UCSF Doctor team is letting Abigail return home with her family on November 3rd, 2010.  The family now has a new used vehicle for her monthly doctor visits to San Francisco Children's Hospital (Parnassus Street- Sunset District). I will post more news when they arrive as it comes.  Bless them all! 
    
Here is an excerpt from her Caringbridge page on her great progress:

Abbi's Mom says:

so things keep moving in the right direction. abbi is off hydration as of today. off of her blood pressure med. she is 100 percent donor. the docs are gonna talk about tapering her down from prograf in the next 2 weeks. and having her totally off in 6 weeks to waken up her new immune system. they have to be careful not to give her too bad gvhd. but they will hopefully taper her quicker than last time. she looks good and the doc said her stubborness is paying off. he couldnt believe she bounced back so quick from the peri engraftment syndrome that had her in icu and on oxegyn. but we all know abbi is very strong willed. i haven't been updating as much, probably now once every couple days or week depending on things. we just can't wait to go home. we are getting new carpet in our house. and we got our new car. so we are happy. ESPECIALLY HAPPY THAT ABBI IS DOING WELL! 

                  

The home stretch...

Abigail has been in hospital for about two months now and it's finally time for her to leave for the family house down the street and going home will be in a few more weeks possibly November 3rd. She has survived severe reactions to chemotherapy, radiation, and drugs pumped through the "chest port" which she endures everytime she has one of these frankenstein experiments done to her. Not to mention the torture her body gives her while the new white blood cells, red cells, and platelets are forming and the reactions every time new blood cell growth begins to occur. Now she has the chance to experience life on the outside of her small hospital room again.

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BENEFIT DINNER GIVEN BY APRIL AND THE VETERANS AT ANDERSON VETERANS HALL!

Just a thought for my grand-kids, my daughter Candice, and her husband Dennis. I love you very much and I am so proud that you are accomplishing this great task of walking your daughter through this very deep valley in her young life...just so you know. The spaghetti benefit dinner-slash-country western band music evening is coming up this weekend and I got my outfit together today. Grandmom 

Here I am serving dinner to the crowd...it was a HUGE success for them and now they have a slightly used silver Honda Accord to get them back and forth for Abigail's UCSF treatment and monthly trips for her Doctor appointments afterward.

Brother Blake goes to Charter School in San Francisco

Blake started his first day of school today in San Francisco.

Just pictures...

Abigail gets down to London Bridge...

 

Maybe this time I'll win...

There is only so much that can be said for bone marrow transplants. You have one and it is good, then it isn't... so, you have to wait a little bit and go have another one.

 Abigail gets tooth work done

street-clothes are traded for hospital gown

making sure that the chest port doesn't leak!

Chest port goes in for chemotherapy (therapy?)

when hairs fall off they itch so you have the nurse shave it all off!

She feels trapped after approximately one month of hospitalization and isolation for her third bone marrow transplant procedure.