Going home next week

Sylvia and Jill got great news yesterday. The medical team set next Wednesday as Jill's release date. Jill and Sylvia will fly home Thursday and then check in with the Boise doctors on Friday. They have been busy preparing for their return home for the last week or so. Before they can leave Seattle there are numerous medical steps necessary (tests, changes in prescriptions and so on) in addition to packing and getting ready to vacate the apartment. Scott will fly out to Seattle and drive the car, filled with boxes (and Turbo the dog), back to Boise.

Jill is regaining her strength. She is taking physiotherapy and getting regular light exercise to rebuilt her muscles. The medical team is also fine-tuning her drugs and IV fluids as her body recovers from the transplant and the drugs used to treat the graft-versus-host disease that followed.

Jill and Sylvia are looking forward to being back in Boise with friends and family.

tom