Last Treatment DONE!

8 months old 6/2/12

The kid is doing great - Madeleine received platelets very early in the day and her transplant took less than 5 minutes Friday morning and she was able to come off monitoring earlier than in the past she was doing so well. She had a visitor, was playing and had a great afternoon nap. Her few days of feeling crummy are evidently over because she was doing phenomenal this morning: giggling, playing, and kicking her feet, with very little emesis and a smaller does of medication to control it. Her counts had already come down before the transplant, and as of today they were hanging on - a good sign. Today she began her GCSF - that's the booster for her white blood cells. Although she's essentially getting new bone marrow cells, the chemo is so debilitating that she needs that extra boost to help her immune system recover and protect her from long-term neutropenia. We now cross our fingers and keep praying that she wards off fever and infection and recovers quickly enough we can take her home and she can complete her recovery comfortably.

Today is Madeleine's 8th month birthday! and I forgot to mention that as of last Sunday, she's learned to shake and nod her head :) most kids don't start nodding until closer to 12 months of age. 


Milestones this week:
Shaking Head - check! ü
Nodding - check! ü
Last Chemo - check! ü
Last Treatment - check! ü
Changing Rooms - hopefully tonight :)