Day 129 from Bone Marrow Transplant!

I can not believe it but today is day 129 from Eric's bone marrow transplant! WOW!!! Some ways it has went fast but alot of ways very slow.....We meet with Eric's doctor yesterday Eric's blood counts have been holding their own without Nuepogen shots this week which has been good. Still they are a little low but his platelets went up to 65 which we were happy about, just to give you an idea normal platelets counts should be about 140,000 to 440,000 for a normal person so as you can see Eric is way, way lower than that but he was going down alot lower again to the 19's to 50 so we are happy they went up.

His white cells are 3.3 we would like them back to what they were right before we left Texas which was around 4.5-5.9 but again they feel the chemo he had to have those 4 weeks right before we came home threw them off for a little awhile due to that EBV virus that reactivated in his B cells. His red cells are holding good at about 3.26 marked critical low as well as his other counts but he is holding on.

We still have to do IV treatments through the week which take about 5-6 hours here at home, so that is fun... We are grateful that Eric is able to be out of the hospital and home with us, that we are a family again. We feel blessed to have him doing ok right now at least we are not down in Texas for a second bone marrow transplant as we had thought a few weeks ago. We are loving watching as a family all the NFL football games and cheering on our team - LETS GO COLTS! We are hoping that its the COLTS VS. SAINTS in the super bowl!

Eric was just saying how tired he is and how it is so frustrating to him not to have the energy to do much but he is grateful. We sent a letter again off to Eric's donor .. we are so grateful to him. It is hard to not be able to meet him and reveal any of our personal identity with him yet but we understand the rules. We are at least able to send him letters and hope he realizes how amazing he is and how grateful we are to him. We can not wait to meet him!