I know it's been a while since we've blogged, but always remember "No News is Good News"!
Well, today, by the request of Dr. Bunin, Jack had clinic. Normally we go on Tuesdays, but Dr. Bunin asked if we could bring Jack in today instead of yesterday, she wanted to see him herself. Anyway.....we got some really great news. After getting blood work, Jack's counts have almost doubled from last week. His platelet level went from 40 to 85 (thousand, that is) and his ANC is now up in the 4,000 and his White Blood Count is now 5.2. All his counts are coming up. Dr. Bunin was very pleased to see the jump in his counts and of course, so are we. WOOHOO, YOU GO JACK!!!
We've been busy trying to get the house in order. Roy has been doing so much work repairing pipes for the pool, cutting down dead branches off trees, mowing the law and just trying to catch up on all the things that have been neglected during the time that Jack was in the hospital. We're about 2 months behind on doing things, so I never got a chance to plant flowers and the yard looks bare. That's ok, next year we'll have everything put together the way it should be, right now we're just trying to make things look decent. We're just so grateful that we're here with my mom and taking the load off of her.
On top of all the yard work, Jack's Pop-pop came here from upstate New York, on Sunday to spend the day with the kids. They had so much fun in the pool. Christina also had Charlene here for the day, so everyone had a blast.
On Monday, we had one of the families we met during transplant come here to spend the day and it was really nice. Tammy Lausten and her sons, Tyler, Dominic and Nicholas drove up 2 hours from Southern Jersey and we hung out and tried to get the boys to go swimming. I've mentioned Tyler before, he is one of the boy's who recieved a transplant the same time as Jack and he's doing very well. Please remember to keep him in your prayers and check out his website:
www.caringbridge.org/pa/tylerlausten/
A romance even seemed to happen that day. Tyler and Christina really hit it off. Roy and I are a little worried, they exchanged email addesses and have been IM-ing each other......(Tina has good taste!!)
Hey Ty, that's our little girl you have your arm around!!!.............................
(Roy's favorite line from the movie "Clueless" - "I have a shovel and a shotgun...no one will miss you"!!
NO OFFENSE TAMMY!!! You know we love Tyler!!!!!!
Cheryl even stopped by and she had fun with the boys as well. (from left to right - Dominic, Nicholas, Jack and Cheryl)
There are so many other pictures that both Tammy and I would love to post and wish we could (wink, wink).
Tammy and UH!,.........Thank you so much for coming to our house and we can't wait to do it again!!!