Update on Laura

I took the car in this morning to be repaired for a number of issues.  Since I didn’t have transportation I wasn’t able to see Laura until after 5pm.  So I picked up the car with the boys and we drove over to the hospital after picking up some dinner.  Laura seemed in pretty good spirits, despite the fact that she only slept two hours last night.  The nurse she had last night was apparently a resource nurse who had never worked on the bone marrow center floor before and she messed up Laura’s IV wires so the IV machine was going off all night long.  One of the regular nurses came in the morning and fixed the wires.  After that, Laura didn’t hear any sounds for the rest of the day.  She finally got to sleep at 5am and slept until 7am.  Despite this, she was in good spirits when we visited tonight.  She specifically said to tell everyone she wasn’t feeling as down anymore so thank you for the many prayers.

Her white blood cell count was 200.  The doctor thinks this is legit and not a ‘fakeout’ and thought there was a good chance Laura could be going home by Friday.  We know things can change any minute but we are hoping the white blood cells keep going up for the rest of the week.  Her sore throat will finally be gone once the counts go up.

One interesting thing Laura shared tonight.  She saw an advertisement for a countdown to the Olympics.  She realized at one point that the countdown was very interesting and matched something for her.  The 100 day mark that is significant for Laura falls exactly on the same day as the first day of the Olympics.  Laura has really been looking forward to the Olympics.  We kind of see this as symbolic of getting through a significant part of her healing, kind of triumphant in celebrating her 100 days.  So that was a fun thing in the midst of it all.

Love,

Brad