Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Sorry for delay posting this: phone line's been out again.

Sunday, December 6, 2009 9:14 PM, EST

Well, Ally is still in the hospital. Her temperature has been staying below 100 for pretty much the whole day, but it is above 98.6. This is not really our concern anymore. When we were admitted her white blood cells were 0.1 (a normal, healthy count would be around 6). Today they were 0.4. A step in the right direction, but tomorrow they could fall to 0.3 or go up to 0.5 and then fall again the next day. They want to keep Ally until they see real growth with her white blood cells. The medicine we are giving her to help boost those is the injection she gets in her leg everyday.
So....there is a light at the end of the tunnel, we just can't tell where it is yet.

Below are three photos, by which you can see the progression of Ally's hair loss. There is one of her pre-haircut, then one with a little tear in her eye post haircut. Even from there, she lost more hair. Last you can see what she looked like earlier today.

PS: Thanks to the neighbor that cleaned our driveway! It was VERY much appreciated!

Ally pre-haircut:


Ally post-haircut, with a tear in her eye:


Ally today:


NB~~ I'm posting this with partial pics because I've been trying for four hours to download *whole* pics, and the process keeps crashing the 'puter. So just getting this up, and will try to get the pictures in another day.

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