Thursday August 1st, 2013

Good Afternoon Everyone! We have some great news to share from the hospital. It looks like Jenn will be released from the hospital on Monday as long as the head doctor approves the recommendation. Jenn has been eating well daily, so they removed her TPN IV. She has been working out like an olympic hopeful as well. This past week Jenn has stepped up her laps at the hospital and a half mile daily is the new norm. She also worksout in bed with weights and plays with putty to increase her hand strength as well. This is all very important as Jenn will need as much strength as possible for the bone marrow transplant procedure that is just a few weeks away now. The doctors still need to figure out the best method for attacking this FLT-3 genetic mutation as the doses of chemo are only causing more and more mutations, so they need to fix this break in Jenn's chromosonal chain first and foremost. Once they accomplish that, Jenn will proceed back to Roswell for her bone marrow transplant. With all of this said, Jenn is doing quite well and I have no doubt that she will yet again put this nasty disease behind her and move forward stronger and healthier then ever. Cool news for the day, Jenn was told that she can go outside at Roswell for a half hour or so this weekend with me. I am SOOO excited to get some time outside of these hospital walls with my wife, best friend and overall best woman in the world!! We appreciate all of the cards and well wishes that Jenn has received so far to date, they are all very touching and uplifting; thank to everyone!! One last thing, with us leaving the hospital, please hold off on sending anything to Jenn at this time. I will post our new address tomorrow on the blog and this way I know we will be there to receive any well wishes. Much love from room 5409!! BTW - Sorry for the format, I had to write this in HTML and it's a huge run on paragraph...UGH!