Starting to make some progress again

Six days after she went in the Doctors from Kings and Derriford think they know what is wrong. It is not any form of infection (extensive tests, and repeats, being negative), but they believe it is a side effect of some mild rejection of the bone marrow transplant (graft Vs host desease). This is to be expected and 'a but of it is good' as it proves things are working well.

She also has her bone marrow biopsy test results which where emailed from Kings. A month ago they showed that her new bone marrow was 58% of all the marrow (the rest being her old stuff coming back) They had hoped that the new stuff would have risen to the mid 80% by now, instead it has gone down a tad to 52%. So she will go with me to Kings on Tuesday / Wednesday and they will probably give her a top up of the transplant - this will only take an hour and not require chemo etc.


They let her out of Derriford Hospital yesterday for a few hours - change of scenery, bath, see the kids and a meal. She went back in at 9:00 p.m. Today they have done the same thing - which is nice for her. It also means that she has to do some exercise walking to the car, which she needs as she is very weak from not eating and losing too much from the other end

She is looking a lot better than earlier in the week, eating and drinking better, and was feeling 'locked in' where she was. We take her back in later this evening.
The kids are not getting much of a week - their half term. But this morning Barbara and I took some school children around the farm, seeing chickens, goats, cattle, sheep, a hare, a buzzard, lots of things we grow, and then we cooked some potatoes and meat for their lunch. The children came with them and had a lovely time. They both got a new computer game a couple of days ago - so all was not too bad