Day 27

My apologies to all the friends and family following this blog for my delay in getting any messages out to you for the past few days.  Although...  no news is good news.  Kristine neutrophils are way up!  In fact, they are at 1500!!  Wahoo!!  However, the PA said Kristine is still neutropenic - meaning she still doesn't quite have enough white blood cells to be considered non-immunocompromised.

With the improvements Kristine's blood counts have made over the last few days, Dr. Jacoub says he may release her as early as Monday to go home and continue treatment at home!  This is very exciting news!!  She will still have to go back to the hospital twice a week for her blood to be tested and she will be required to give herself neupogen injections which she learned how to do yesterday.  The neupogen injections are the shots been receiving since March 15th to help her marrow make new blood cells.

Dr. Jacoub has talked with Dr. Paquette at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Cancer Center and Kristine will be meeting with him as early as next week or the week after.  This meeting will be Kristine's first evaluation for a possible bone marrow transplant.  We are so excited for this appointment!! 

I wanted to insert a couple more photos to share.  The first is titled Yuuki's class.  Hayato Yuuki is a friend of Dave and Kristine's who has been so emotionally supportive to not only Dave and Kristine but to my sisters as I as well.  He spearheaded the fundraising efforts with the Kristine DuFrene Leukemia Awareness wristbands.  His students asked to purchase wristbands in support of Kristine and the photo shows his class wearing their wristbands while standing infront of the whiteboard with messages written to Kristine.  What a great group of kids!!

The other new photo I inserted is of Dave showing his support of Kristine's beautiful bald head.  He and his friend Yuuki shaved their heads the other day along with some members of Station 3 where Dave works.  My son said he would like to do the same and my husband is going to join him in this gesture of support when we arrive for out next visit with Kristine. 

Once again, thank you to all the friends and family who have been praying for Kristine.  She is doing fabulous and we want to keep her on this path of healing so keep praying!!  Thank you!