Stranded II

Shayla and Angela got stranded in Columbus due to weather. We got them booked into the Garden Inn on Hilton points and have them flying to Philly at 5:30 AM.

Christi continues to impress me with her positive attitude toward her stay here. She does not complain nor get depressed. She got a little bumbed out when Corrine left today, so I smoothed that over with a trip to the gift shop and the Connelly Library.

I told Tony when he came to pick up Corrine that she and I were going to be calling each other on the phone to chat like Ilo and Lowell (her mom and my Dad). We have realy gotten much closer because of her effort to come out to Philly. (Aunt Maxine-do you think that we can grow into being Ilo and Lowell?)

The dreaded shot arrived today(Nuelasta). Christi will receive that on Monday after three days of G-CSF via IV. The counts should bottom out a week from tomorrow. We are hoping that Christi can stay well enough to head home by then. We are looking forward to visitors that week!! Aunt V-Christi loves her Pillow and sleeps with it every night in the hospital!

11:30 tomorrow: new life will be pumped into Christi by the reinfusion of her stem cells that were harvested at MSKCC a couple of years ago(they survived the blackout) We hope they engraft quickly and they allow her to be a full and active participant in her ballet recital and in theater camp at the Ritz when we return home.

No scan will be done for about thirty days so we will not know for some time if this treatment was effective. Right now we must focus on her recovery and reviewing the short list of treatment options along with their eligability requirements.

Special thanks to Eden Vetinary Clinic and my ma Joan for taking care of a very sick Buckeye the cat while we are gone.

Enough for now. Angela will be back in the reporters chair tomorrow.

Shayne