Day 1

Happy birthday Greta! This is Day 1 of Greta's road to recovery. They call it her second birthday. She did just as well today with her second infusion. She's still not eating a whole lot, so she's on IV nutrition to help keep her strength up.

The stem cells are kept in a preservative that make Greta (and the whole room) smell like cream corn. Kind of like a school lunch room. Fortunately it's starting to dissipate a little. So now we just wait until her counts drop and recover and try to keep her from getting any infections.

Greta has been amazing through all of this. I can't imagine many kids would put up with being isolated in a small hospital room for 9 days already. She rarely complains about much. We are so blessed that she is so content and accepting of the situation she has been put in. I think I could learn a few things from her!

Thank you again and again for all your prayers and all the support. We have been blessed with amazing friends and family. You'll never know how much it means to us.

love,
The Betz Family