A quick post since I'm at work. Dr. Geddes came in this morning and told Elizabeth that the test results (blood, not biopsy) show engraftment. Elizabeth will not need a supplemental transplant of donor stem cells. It's now a waiting game while the bone marrow continues to grow and produce blood cells. Right now, it's just producing white blood cells and neutrophils. As the marrow establishes itself, it will start producing other cell types. Red blood cells will be the last.
If you're following numbers, her WBC and neutrophils are both at 1. That's 1.0, which means she's gone from .1 to .3 to .6 to 1.0 in three days!
Thank you all for your good wishes and prayers. We're still not out of the wood, so please keep them coming!
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