+98 – The good, the bad and the ugly

The last week has been pretty eventful.  Friday Kimbell’s counts were ok.  We met with Dr. Tolar about our upcoming trip home and he answered a lot of our questions which was good.  The one thing I love about Dr. Tolar is he has always been honest with us and has never sugar-coated anything.  He congratulated Kimbell on a successful […]

Day +92

K spent a few days inpatient but is now out 🙂  Always nice to go “home” even if it is a temporary home.  Kimbell’s counts are still all over the map but they are still hoping this is temporary.  We are still on track to go home next Saturday!  It seems to good to be true!  Tomorrow we get to […]

Inpatient again

In the grand scheme of things we have and continued to be so blessed I really am not entitled to ever complain but maybe I shouldn’t boast to loudly about how well Kimbell is doing.   Yesterday she spiked a fever after vomiting for forever so she was automatically admitted.  We blame that on our friend Sam because you see […]

A wish, an update, and a lot of thanks

Quick update on K.  Thursday we went for labs thinking she would need blood.  Labs came back and I asked the PA, are you sure those are K’s?  He looked at them and said well the white count is around the right number….  So we went in for counts again today.  These numbers made much more sense.  Thankfully her hemoglobin […]

Day 84!

Wow day 100 is quickly approaching!! Things around here have been pretty quiet.  John is healing, and Kimbell is well I’m not so sure to be honest.   They backed off of her fluids for a couple of days and her kidney numbers went back up so I guess she will just be on IV fluids for a long time. […]