DAILY NANCY UPDATE #71

Greetings. 

This is the seventy-first 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

Welp... it's been a couple of long days for the Sunshiny Superwarrior Goddess... each one starting with a 5AM drive to City of Hope Hospital in Duarte, California.

Yesterday was for a variety of blood tests and a doctor consult (thanks for driving, Ceci!) in the continuing quest to figure out why she's been running a low grade fever for the past eight days. The continuing suspicion is that she's fighting some type of infection-- but the exact source remains unclear. And it's important that we figure it out so she can be properly treated for it-- otherwise, the persistent fevers may force a delay of her bone marrow transplant, which none of us wants. 

The good news is, her blood work looks pretty normal. But a pulmonologist did spot some kind of light shadow in a CT scan of her lungs. And that's why today was a little more involved. 

After another pre-dawn jaunt (thanks for getting the boys to school, Jay!) Nancy was put under general anesthesia so the pulmonologist could perform a bronchioscopy to get a better look at what's happening in her chest. And the better news is that so far, the results of that procedure have all come back looking normal, too.

So to make a long story longer, we're still searching for the cause of her fevers. If it's not some kind of hidden viral infection... it could also be some kind of lingering INFLAMMATION. Maybe from her latest bone marrow biopsy. Maybe still related to the same lumbar puncture that hospitalized her a few weeks ago. Regardless, if that turns out to be the case, her docs seem confident that another course of steroids should correct the problem.

Meanwhile, I can tell you this.

She's really tired of being tired. Super sick of feeling sick. So we can't wait to get her over this hump, through the transplant, and back to a leukemia free life. 

And did we mention how much we appreciate your continuing good thoughts and prayers?

WE LOVE NANCY, and... 

ALL IS WELL!