Day +4

Hello all, just wanted to let you all know that I am doing well and have been feeling pretty good the last few days. We have not posted anything on the Blog as there really has not been much happening. At this point everything is a waiting game. For now we are waiting for my immune system to be completely removed. The indicator for that will be when my white blood cells get to zero (currently we are at 0.5), which should be tomorrow. After that we wait for the new t-cells to “engraft” and start producing their own white cells (and stuff). This is not an exact science and we can not be sure when this engraftment will begin, nor what might happen when it does. There is a whole myriad of issues that can come up once the process begins but I am not going to speculate (even think about ) that for now. What we have to do now is NOT GET SICK. As you can imagine with no immune system I am susceptible to the smallest/simplest infection and the worse part is that I have nothing to fight it off with if I did get something. So we are doing our very best to keep everything as neat and clean as possible and just slowly work through the next days. This process could take less that 2 weeks or more than a month, we just don’t know. For now I need to keep working on my energy, without new cells growing I have nothing to burn/use.