Hello All,
We held out longer than anyone else, some have even gotten it twice, but Ryan finally caught the bug that has been terrorizing this entire floor. For the last three weeks, every member of the staff and almost all the patients and their families have had fever with cough and chest congestion. Although I knew it was only a matter of time before our repeated exposures would catch us, I was hoping to avoid it. Ryan still had his stem cells by IV today and if well enough, will have his last spinal stem cell treatment on Friday. As long as he just has a simple cold with little or no fever, we should be able to proceed as scheduled. We have to avoid using antibiotics to protect the stem cells, so we will just have to gut this out old school. As the date of our departure gets closer, time seems to be slowing down. Not much else has happened the last few days. Sarah continues to be in good spirits and is doing well in school. Thanks for reading. Take care. Dan, Suzanne and Ryan.
Hey Guys!!!
I am a little slow on the updates as I have been out of town for the wedding and my work computer will only let me read your blogs, for some dumb reason it won’t let me reply. Anywho Ike was supposed to follow me from Dallas to Nashville but apparently my stern talking with the weather.com screen the night before I left worked because it avoided both cities. There was evidence of power loss when I got home as all my clocks were wrong but other than that it was life as usual. Diane has opted to go to Cathys for the next week or so as here she would not have had a place for the dog or anyone for Devon or Parker to play with.
I can’t believe that he was getting 120 million cells!!!! Thats incredible!! I can’t wait for you guys to come home so I can come down and visit! I made the drive the other week and with a few good cd’s its fine!!! I love you and miss you all!!
Stay Brave Ryan!!! I love you!!!
-Aunt Karyn-
Hey guys,
didn’t realize you were blogging til yesterday. I was out of work with Ursula for over a month. Just got back to work on Friday. Hope everything is going ok. I’ll have to look over the blog to see how everything is turning out. That bug made the news over here. Pretty crazy. I’ll hit you guys up later.