Blood Drive

The blood drive was a great sucess today. We had 35 people donate blood and about 15 more that got turned away because we ran out of time. Even baby Caleb wanted to help out...haha!  Thank you all so much for donating or going to a Carter Blood care center.  If you still want to donate for Katie, you can go to any carter bloodcare and complete the plan designation form.  Her sponsor number is SPON050001. 

Katie started her first round of chemo yesterday.  She is doing well. She is very tired and not getting much sleep in the hospital.  I just pray for minimal side effects from this round of chemo.  Love you Katie!

Round 2 of chemo

Katie went back to Harris hospital this morning to get ready for round 2 of chemo.  Not much has gone on today.  Katie went for a small surgical procedure at 4:30pm to have a mediport placed for all her chemo she is to receive.  She will have a bone marrow biopsy in the morning and then start chemotherapy tomorrow.  She is expected to be in the hospital about 14 days this round.  She is very sad she will not be able to be out for Thanksgiving.  Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers as I will try to keep everyone updated.

Love you all!

Bone Marrow Transplant Consultation

Well today we (Mom, Dad, Katie, Jenn and I) met with Dr. Vance at Baylor Dallas to discuss what to expect with the bone marrow transplant.  Dr. Vance was very informative and very nice.  He would like to see Katie complete 4-6 rounds of chemo before transplant.  I don't know how they will decide between 4 & 6 but probably transplant around March.  Today they also tested me to see if I was a match for transplant.  They only wanted to test full siblings today...so that was me.  I guess the test is very specific and anybody other that full siblings have just as much a change as any stranger.  If I am not a match I am sure they will test all other family members while looking at the national registry at the same time.  I am very nervous awaiting the results.  I really hope I am a match!  It will take 7-10 business days to find out.  Please pray I am a match!  I did find it interesting that blood type does not matter at all.  If you find a stranger that is a match, you would take on their blood type.  Also if it is a male donor, Katie would then have male chromosomes.  So if they tested her DNA it would look like she is a male.  Very interesting to me!  This stuff is crazy!

Good times!

Today was a great day!  Katie is feeling well so we took to shopping.  We spent a lot of time at Kohl's looking for her some jeans and sweaters.  Katie also got some new boots for the winter.  I on the other hand did not buy anything...boo.

After shopping we went to On the Border for dinner and went to see a movie "Due Date".  Due Date is the funniest movie I have seen in a long time.  I laughed out loud on multiple occasions.  It was nice to see Katie laugh too!  Katie...Do you have glaucoma? haha... You must go see the movie!  Thank you so much April for watching my kiddos so I could spend some quality time with my sis! 

Well big day tomorrow...we meet with the transplant team!