October
17, 2003
Vaccine
Hey
there..........what a week it's been.
Not with stuff with Jade though.....with my pathetic
body having a severe reaction to a pneumonia vaccine.
Garrett and I had our flu shots on Mon and I also
had a pneumonia vaccine to help protect Jade this
winter. Good night Gracie has that been a nightmare.
Today they finally put me on steriods and an anti-biotic
and informed me to never, ever get another pneumonia
vaccine during the duration of my life - - this one
was bad enough and the next one would be even worse.
There are lots of fun medical/physical things I could
inform you of from this week, but I won't bore you
with details....we'll just move off of pathetic me
who can't tolerate a simple vaccine and move onto
to Jade.........
Jade had his weekly check-in with the BMT clinic on
Wednesday. It was a fairly normal check-up. They are
quite pleased with how well he's doing all things
considered. His counts are all ok and they are keeping
things status quo for the next week or two. Continuing
to do magnesium infusions at night and staying on
the same level of cyclosporine (immune suppresion
drug) for the time being. Day 56 will be on Halloween
and they should do another chymerism then and start
to take Jade off the cyclosporine. Depending on graft
vs host disease they will take him off 1) all at one
to induce graft vs host or 2) taper it off to hold
off severe graft vs host. The rash Jade had has gone
away since they took him off Bactrum (anti-bacterial)
but started him back on it after this last appt.
So, all this email consists of is really that Jade
is doing good at Day 42 and my body is bizarro since
it can't tolerate a vaccine. Other than that.....we're
doing ok. Jade has taken a couple drives up the canyons
and went on a short hike on Mon. We feel very fortunate
he's healthy enough to do this.
Hope all is well. Thanks for the emails, cards and
phone calls/messages. Can't believe we've been living
this life for seven almost eight months now. Amazing.
Thanks for your help, encouragement and love. Take
care and good luck getting Halloween costumes and
trick or treat candy ready!
Much love.................Tanya and co.
