Jill progressing well

Jill's healthcare team reports that she is progressing well and that her donated stem cells should begin to engraft in about a week. She is monitored through daily labwork and weekly clinic visits. She still tires easily and one of the side effects of her immune-suppressing drugs, used to prevent graft-versus-host disease, is nausea. The nurses at the clinic are working with Jill to effectively combine anti-nausea meds to decrease the nausea. They expect this side effect will subside as her body adjusts to the immune suppressing-drugs. Jill, Scott, and Sylvia were instructed on administering IV fluids at home to ensure adequate hydration.

To celebrate Thanksgiving, they had a turkey dinner at a local restaurant followed by a dessert social with other patients, families, and caregivers on the roof-top garden at the Pete Gross House (the Korn/Johnson home in Seattle). Scott flew home to Boise for the weekend, but plans to return next week.

Sylvia