Jan 22, 2007 Same BLOG posted as COME sit......

I posted the same exact thing on the other website. Just in case you missed this one or that one.
We had a special dinner to celebrate Stefan's one year transplant date. (Which actually will be Jan 24, 2007)Suzia presented Stefan with a Paperback book containing the whole blog site entries pictures and all.

Stefan's mother Hela was so glad to put this year behind us all.
The BOOK and Stefan walking in from work and being surprised we are all here for HIM.



Besides adding additonal readings from Daniella's view and son Steve's side of this journey for Stefan, she added her side of this journey as well.
I read some of the pages and thought to myself Did THIS really happen? I/we lived thru this? Wow!
Well Stefan will finally be able to READ this stuff, maybe not, he lived thru it.

Suzia will be posting a link to look at the book of 178 pages soon. It contains all of the BLOG entries and comments, including pictures that were posted.

Check-up Tues Jan 23, 2007

Well we went in for Stefan's check-up. Had the bone biopsy done (they got 2- 1/2 cm. of bone biopsy to work with) and the blood work afterwards. She saw me and figured I had some news to mention about Stefan, because he never says that he is tired or anything like that. But she said the test results will show up if anything is happening inside him. I mentioned to Dr. Olga that Stefan and some family members were planning to go on a ski trip, well she was not too happy about it. But when the bloodwork results came in she was ok with the trip then. His blood work results were like this: his white blood count (WBC) was 7.3, his hemoglobin was at 13.4, and his platelets still low but moving to the 100 hundred mark were at 90. Doctors did tell us that it would take at LEAST a year to re-cover to get past 100 in platelets.

While we were there I gave her a Birthday card for Wed. She was surprised , but I did remember her mentioning that on his transplant day, Jan 24, 2006 that, that was her birthday, sooooooo, of course I wrote that down mentally. She was very happy to be remembered in that way by a patient.
Dr. Olga will call on Wed with the biopsy results.

Next appointment will probably on the same day that the appointment with Dr. Ison (Infect Dis.) on April 25, 2007.