by James & Shannon | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Long time since last update… Back in January, Shannon finally went home from the hospital after they figured out what was causing her pneumonia. I can’t remember the name of the bacteria, but it’s something that’s part of our normal respiratory...
by James & Shannon | Jan 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
After Christmas, Shannon’s blood cell counts rapidly recovered. Sometimes they will use an injectable drug called filgrastim to boost white blood cell production, but Shannon didn’t need it. She started producing plenty of blood cells on her own. Once her...
by James & Shannon | Dec 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Allo Day +2 thru today Allo Day +12 Since the transplant, Shannon has been very sleepy. She sleeps more than she’s awake on some days. Her appetite remained good until about a week ago when her throat began to hurt a lot and she also developed some nausea. The...
by James & Shannon | Dec 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Shannon was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center on Dec. 6th. Her room is twice the size of any of her previous rooms, very modern, clean, and comfortable. She’s on the BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant)floor in the Walter Tower....
by James & Shannon | Dec 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Bone marrow biopsy results were delayed and we got a partial result back from the flow cytometry that showed 2.4% blasts still present in her marrow. So we proceeded witht the 2 different outpatient chemo drugs at the beginning of November. The medications were...
by James & Shannon | Oct 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
A lot has happened since our last update back in mid-September. September 18th Shannon had another Bone Marrow Biopsy to check for the presence of leukemia cells in her marrow. There’s was still a very small percentage of leukemic cells around 1%. Since anything...
