And we are stuck Day 45 :(

Yesterday things were looking great. Kimbell finally stopped throwing up just in time to celebrate her birthday with her aunt and cousin complete with a red velvet gourmet cake from our favorite bakery in Houston!  K and Z played for hours and for some reason I was just worried, may have had something to do with K’s attitude….  Z left […]

And back in we go :( Day +44

Well the day started out well. We went to clinic this morning for labs and IVIG which was pretty uneventful.   Kimbell’s kidneys seem to like all of the extra fluid 🙂 unfortunately all 3 cell lines were down. I can’t say I was too surprised because her throat was hurting, she had a cough, and didn’t feel well but […]

Day +41

Kidneys 🙁 seem to be the theme lately.  They are really unhappy so now K gets fluids for 2.5 hours twice a day now… This landed her back in clinic again tomorrow. 🙁  Her CSA levels are low so now she gets to take 5 CSA pills at night. In other news the wheelchair people finally dropped off her wheelchair […]

Day +40!

We have made it 40 days post transplant! So exciting.  Kimbell told us she feels better then she has ever felt in her entire life.  Kind of sad really that this is the best she has ever felt given she is puking everyday, on a zillion pills, dependent on blood products, gcsf, GI problems, and her kidneys are not happy […]

Random Acts of Kindness

Today on the way home from the hospital we stopped at Chik-fil-a per Kimbell’s request. It has been a very long and tenuous 24 hours so I am sure we all look fabulous. A guy asks if he can help  to which I responded no she can’t decide what she wants. Then a minute later another guy asks 🙂   […]