Day +23

Clay's eye is healing so nicely.

This laptop was the best investment. Many hours of entertainment. Aunt Dani sent him an Animal hat. Love her.

We are at day 23. Clay and I are tired of being here. We are starting to get short with each other. But we are still enjoying our time and having fun. We should be out of here Wed or Thur. I am excited because the fam is coming back up for the weekend and it is Lily's birthday. Since we will be home she can be with everyone. I think we might bbq and have fun. Clay will still be under strict germ guidelines so we cant really go anywhere and he will be tired still and not feeling well. Just being together as a family will be enough.

Clays counts went down today. Not to bad just to 400ANC. All it means is that his body is still working and it didn't make as many white blood cells as he needed to. However his platelets went up to 105. Those are some big numbers. Usually kids have a hard time making platelets and have to go to the clinic and have infusions. Clay probably wont have to do that because he is doing great with those numbers. Since his counts went down we are stuck here for a couple more days . The docs say that his counts going down is fairly normal and they are not worried. They think he will be back up Sunday and Monday and out of here mid week. He is taking all but 3 meds in pill form by mouth. He took 8 pills in the morning and 4 pills tonight. When we go home he will be on all of those plus the 3 additional meds for a total of 12 different pills. Some are as much as 4 times a day and a couple are only 1 time a day in the morning. Seems like alot but most of them will tapper off after a couple of weeks. We should go home to Vegas on only 3 pills which he will be on for up to a year. Luckily we have good insurance.

I cant not believe it is snowing, still. It has been snowing since yesterday. I mean I grew up here so I know it snows in April but what a reminder Mother Nature has given me. It even snowed in Vegas, Vegas!! Lily had a game this morning and it was really cold and rainy, they lost by the way, bummer but she handles losses well. Cole had a game and team pictures early afternoon and it started snowing during the pictures. Amazing. Snow in Vegas in April.

Anyway. We started this transplant with a count down to being admitted and now we are counting down when we can go home. Hopefully there are no infections at home and he stays healthy so we don't have to come back.

Love to all, Tab and Clay