DAILY NANCY UPDATE #70

Greetings. 

This is the seventieth in a series of DAILY NANCY UPDATES I will be posting until the amazing Nancy Neufeld Callaway is in full remission and we have kicked her leukemia on its ass. 

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BREAKING NEWS

Sorry it's been a minute since I've updated the blog. But it's been kind of a crazy week, between me taking all kinds of meetings, getting through two nights of finals for my USC class, and-- far more importantly-- Nancy making repeated visits to City of Hope.

It all started on Tuesday night, when I returned home from campus to discover that Nancy was running a high enough fever for our doctor to want her to come get checked out again in the COH ER. So off to Duarte we went. And there we stayed until the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

But after running a bunch of blood tests, they finally let her go home-- and we fell into bed around 4:30AM. So by Wednesday night, after I returned once again from USC, we were both pretty burnt. Unfortunately, she was also still running a low grade fever. They didn't ask us to come back that night-- but when her fever persisted Thursday morning, we went back to City of Hope so we could meet directly with our doc and try to figure out what was going on. 

The suspicion is that Nancy has some kind of lingering infection. We're just not sure where. Could be her back (from a bone marrow biopsy). Could be her lungs (possibly related to inflamed tissue around her IV port site). Could be something else entirely. But as of this writing on Saturday night, she's still running a low grade temperature. So she'll be back at COH on Monday for a follow-up. And on Tuesday, she's scheduled to go under general anesthesia so they can run a few tests that would be a bit too painful for her to deal with otherwise.

For now, we're still completely on target for getting her admitted on May 15th to begin radiation and all the other preliminary procedures necessary for ramping Nancy up to her bone marrow transplant date on May 22nd. But we'd really like to get to the bottom of what's causing the fevers before then, so she's as healthy as possible before the real fun begins.

So here's where I'll ask you all a favor. The Sunshiny Superwarrior Goddess could use some positive encouragement. 

If you've got her email address and/or cell number-- some happy emails and/or texts would be really helpful over the next few days to keep her spirits up. And of course, you could always post a message here, as well. It's just been kind of a long week for her-- and a steady stream of love bombs could go an awfully long way toward getting her over this latest hurdle.

Thank you so much for your continuing good thoughts and prayers.

WE LOVE NANCY, and... 

ALL IS WELL!