Day +6 – Bonus Update!

haha.  had to rope ya in with a catchy title 🙂 Wanted to just post one last update before we hopefully retire for the evening.  Kimbell’s oxygen stats have been steadily dropping and are now consistently hovering around 89-90%…  Please say big giant prayers that it clears quickly and that her lungs are not problematic. Thank you all so much. […]

Day +6

Well the last two days have unfortunately been quite eventful.  Kimbell’s pain continues to increase, which is expected, and the BMT team is incredible at keeping up with it.  We are extremely thankful for that!  The last two days have been filled primarily with sleep with her waking up to get a bolus and going back to sleep.  We have […]

Day +4

Well they warned us….  I honestly can’t complain because it could be so much worse but it is shocking how quickly you go down with a bone marrow transplant.  By evening yesterday we were asking for an increase in her dilaudid, in a 24 hour period we have gone up on her continuous drip 400% and she is still getting […]

Day +3 – Kimbell is enjoying this!

Kimbell is feeling well today (since the pain and nausea meds have kicked in) and she’s painting everyone’s hair!!!! Paige was first, see below in pic.. I’m next!!! Yikes 🙂

Day +1, Morning Update

Hey everyone,  Here’s a quick update on Kimbell’s progress… She slept through the night, only waking quickly here/there to vomit and then go right back to sleep.  The pain has been quite awful for her since the transplant was completed.  Some of this is routine and the docs said things will continue to get worse for a few weeks and […]