Day -1

Yesterday was a rest day for Greta. She is still in pretty good spirits, loves to dance to the Sponge Bob theme song. She now belts out the last "Square Pants" in the song. Love it! She didn't eat a whole lot, but she tends to slow down in that area during past chemo treatments so we aren't too worried just yet. Today she is resting watching more videos. Her red blood cell count is lower today so that may explain why she is a little more low key. She'll get a transfusion later tonight after her transplant.

The doctor informed us that he has decided to transplant 3 of the 4 bags of stem cells Greta had donated previously. We had only anticipated 1 bag being used, but he feels that using 3 will allow her to recover faster and that will leave us 1 bag if the transplant fails. We were a little apprehensive that we'd like to have all bags available in case of failure, but the doctor feels confident that the first will take and doesn't seem concerned in the least bit, so we are reassured with his knowledge and expertise. And having a faster recovery time appeals quite a bit. So she'll now get two infusions tomorrow and a 3rd infusion on Wednesday, which technically pushes her day zero back a day as well. In the scheme of 100 days, one more doesn't sound too terribly bad.

Greta's hair had started to grow back with the month off she had in December. She's got little fuzz all over the top of her head and her eyelashes were coming back too. It's so amazing to look at pictures of her when this all started 9 months ago. I hardly remember what she looked like with hair. So many changes.

On the home front, we have decided to take this opportunity while Greta is hospitalized to replace all the flooring in the kitchen and living room. This will take place on Wednesday, it's win/win I get all new hardwood floors and carpet and we have clean floors for Greta to play on when she returns. We'll also be hiring a cleaning company to clean the other carpets, furniture, window treatments, air ducts and pretty much everything so she'll be in a clean environment when she gets home.

Thanks for all the prayers today and all your notes of support!

Love,
The Betz Family