Day 9 + 10

(Day 9) & (Day 10)

Dianna's Labs- Friday, 10/10/08:
white blood count: 2.0, red blood count: 3.42, HGB: 9.8, platelets: 5, Neut #: 1.460

Friday (Day 9)-

The doctors are very pleased with Dianna's blood counts. :-)
You can see that she is beginning to make her own white blood cells!!!
(This is the start of building back her immune system.)
It is great to hear good news!
Today, he said that Dianna would not need to have her sugar checked or insulin shots.
YEA!
No more pokes in the fingers and back of her arm. :-)

Dianna is still having problems with kidneys and high blood pressure, but it is due to the steriods that she is taking.
She is still on medications to help with her kidneys and high blood pressure.

Saturday (Day 10)-

Today is about the same as Friday...
Dianna is still having the problems with her kidneys and high blood pressure, but the doctors are still pleased with how she is doing.

I am just praying that her body continues to heal itself and Nicolaus' stem cells continue to grow.

Day 8

Today, began about the same...

Dianna is still on medication to help control her high blood pressure & high sugar.
Also, the doctors believe that the sores in her mouth are also in her stomach.
(The reason she has been complaining of stomach pains for the past week.)
The pain medication seems to help with this most of the time.

TODAY-
Dianna wanted to shave off the rest of her hair.
It has been coming out and was beginning to really bother her.

SO...
The Guys deceided to join Dianna in shaving their heads, as a show of support!
It was great!!!
Today was the first day Dianna has laughed in two weeks! :-)
Everyone had a GREAT TIME!
They had a pool to determine who had the best looking head and Dianna was the judge.
She picked Ryan as the winner. :-)

Thanks to the guys for making Dianna laugh!!!!!!

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**Bret Foster (Daddy Bret), Doug Foster (Uncle Doug), Ryan Foster (Big Brother "step-brother") & Pat Kempf (CEO of Moroch & Friend of Bret)**

Day +6

Dianna labs- 10/05/08:
white blood count: 0.2, red blood count: 2.47, HGB: 8.0, platelets: 8, Neut #: 0.100

The past few days have been about the same...
Dianna is still having problems with her kidneys, high blood pressure and high sugar.
The medications she is on seems to be helping.

Sunday- She received a platelet transfusion.

Monday- She received a blood transusion.
Also, she has started to loss her hair. :-(

Tuesday- She began to get a sore in her mouth from the chemo.

Day +2

The past two nights Dianna has had a problem with her blood pressure and sugar levels being very high.
She has had to begin medication for high blood pressure and insulin.
Also, her kidneys are having problems keeping up with all the medications.
She is not happy with all the pokes testing her sugar levels and giving insulin.
Today her blood pressure went so high that she said she was seeing double. :-(
Her doctor called in a Kidney Specialist- hoping he can help with her kidneys and the high blood pressure.
He ordered an Ultra Sound for her... we are still waiting on the results.

Day 0 - Transplant Day!!!

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This morning Dianna was given more medication to help prevent problems with the transplant.
She had a reaction to one of the medications it caused a fever and her blood pressure went up.
She was given more medication for the fever and blood pressure medication.

Nicolaus had to be at the surgery area at 6:00am.
He was taken back for the stem cell harvest around 7:30am.
The doctors said everything went very well with the procedure. :-)
We finally got to see Nicolaus aroung 10:30am.
He was in pain, so he received medication for the pain.

Nicolaus finally felt well enough to visit Dianna around 5:30pm.
They brought him up in a wheelchair.

Poor Nicolaus got sick leaving the hospital. :-(

*The hospital sent Dianna a Birthday Cake tonight.*

**Now Dianna will get to have TWO Birthdays.**

Day -2

This morning at 4:00am, Dianna started "Cyclosporine".
It is used to decrease the immune system's response to a transplant.
Today, NO Cytoxan. Yea!
Dianna received Fludarbine & ATG.
She is still having bad haedaches. :-(
Tonight around 9:30pm Dianna was sick at her stomach again. :-(

Tuesday, Day -1
For Dianna- Rest day & IVIG
For Nicolaus- Pre-OP appointment

Day -3

Labs from 9/27/08
white blood count: 0.4, red blood count: 3.45, HGB: 11.4, Platelets: 55, Neut #: 0.400

*Dianna did receive a blood transfusion on Friday and platelet transfusion today.

Saturday- Dianna did ok, she continues to have bad headaches off and on during the day/night.

Sunday- Today is the last day of Cytoxan!
Dianna is about the same as yesterday.

Tomorrow, Monday- will be only the Fludarabine & ATG.