It has been a long two weeks. Dyamond’s birthday was great! Thank you for all the cards, flowers and messages.

Her white count (WBC) had come down from 20 on 4/20 to 10 on 4/25. She did have a urinary track infection and we were hoping that is why it was up, but her next urine test came back clean, and her white count continued to go up.

Wednesday (4/30), we went to Omaha for her biopsy of the lymphoid in her neck. The procedure went well. It was very painful. She wasn’t able to turn her head or do much until that Saturday. She thought she wasn’t feeling the best all week, cold like symptoms until she woke up Friday morning (5/9). Her WBC went back up to 15 and she is coughing like a truck driver. They put her on antibiotics for 10 days. We are watching her closely, so it doesn’t move to upper respiratory.

I heard from Omaha on Friday with her biopsy results. The biopsy showed some reactive tissues (not sure what that means), but at this time they do not feel anything needs to be done. They are going to keep a close eye on it. They are not sure why her EBV number went to 1,400,000 in April or why last weeks EBV was 530,000. Right now we need to get her over whatever bug she has that is making her WBC up.

It has been a roller coaster, whenever she starts to feel good with in a month something brings her down. I have to say, she still has her positive attitude that she has had through this entire journey.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers.