Day + 166

Day +166

Hello Everyone,

We hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving. We enjoyed ours with family from Naples and Atlanta. It was so nice to have all of us together. We certainly had a lot to be thankful for this year, Jordan's donor was at the top of the list.

Jordan had clinic today at St. Joe's. She's been feeling pretty icky since Wednesday, having headaches, nausea, etc. After leaving St. Joe's, I sent Dr. Petrovic and Dr. Neider an e-mail explaining her symptoms and they asked to bring her to ACH to run some extra labs to look for potential viruses.

Hopefully everything will come back with good results.

Her labs today were:

HGB = 12.4
WBC = 5.5
PLT = 347
ANC = 4641
FK506 = 14.4
IG = 472

Her labs all look great, so it's a bit puzzling as to why she isn't feeling 100%. Since her IG level is low, she'll need a infusion again next week.

We did move into our new home. It's been a lot of work and will continue to be for a few more weeks. Unpacking and sorting through old boxes is never fun. It's very tedious and boring, but a necessity.

Jordan's new bedroom furniture arrived on Saturday. She was very excited to get it and it looks great in her room. We still need to buy furniture for her bonus room. She needs an entertainment center and couch, tables, etc. It's going to look like a family room when we're done. We call the upstairs her 'apartment'. If she had a kitchen, she'd have everything she needed. Lucky for us, she doesn't, so she has to come downstairs and hang out with us if she wants to eat. :-) It's good exercise for her to go up and down the stairs. It will help rebuild the muscles in her legs.

Kennedy is doing great. She is a total joy and brings us lots of laughter. My sister Megen, her son Cody and their Boston Terrier Jack were here for Thanksgiving. Kennedy had a friend to play with and she thoroughly enjoyed it. Jordan created a website for Kennedy on Dogster.com. This is sort of like my space but for dogs. They also have Catster.com for all the cat enthusiasts out there. You can see Kennedy's website at www.dogster.com/pet_page.php?i=420383

The rest of us are doing well. We are coming down with a bit of a cold and hoping Jordan doesn't catch it.

We have to start our holiday decorating. I love Christmas and enjoy dragging out the decorations. This year will be even better since we are in our new home.

Lots of love to you all. Thanks for checking on Jordan.

Katherine and family