DAILY NANCY UPDATE #14

Greetings. 

This is the fourteenth 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

Wanna hear Dr. Gary Schiller's latest assessment of Nancy's progress? Well, according to the esteemed Director of Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplantation and Professor of Hematology/Oncology at UCLA-- the Sunshiny Superwarrior Goddess is doing "GREAT, GREAT, GREAT." Why? Because her BLAST COUNT is ZERO. (Blast Cells are abnormal, immature white blood cells that cause leukemia by filling the bone marrow and spilling into the blood stream). Dr. Schiller is very happy about this. So we're quite frankly, ecstatic. 

HEADLINES

BLAST COUNT ZERO!

WE REPEAT! NANCY'S BLAST CELL COUNT IS ZERO! ZILCH! NADA! BUH-BYE BLAST CELLS-- DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON YOUR WAY OUT OF NANCY'S BODY! ACTUALLY-- DO LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS-- ALONG WITH ALL OF OUR FEET! AND DON'T COME BACK YOU NASTY PURPLE BASTARDS... EVER!!! 

TODAY'S HURDLE

Because of the zero blast cell count, Dr. Schiller thinks Nancy should have a lumbar puncture (AKA spinal tap) as soon as possible today, in order to collect cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the spinal cord to detect whether blood cancer cells are present in the sample. We're told it will hurt less than the bone marrow biopsy she had a week ago-- but as the name suggests, it probably won't be terribly pleasant. Plus, she has to have some special intrathecal chemo while they're in there-- to help protect against any white blood cells that might try to sneak in. So your good thoughts and prayers for a swift and relatively painless procedure would be greatly appreciated.

POSTSCRIPT

WE ALSO GOT OUR WIFI BACK AT HOME. So thanks to everyone who volunteered to come by and help me figure it out. It's amazing how one little thing like temporarily losing the internet can throw so many other aspects of our lives into a tailspin right now. The boys weren't able to download and do their homework. We couldn't FaceTime with Nancy. I couldn't update the blog. But now we're back online and normalcy has been restored... whatever normalcy is right now.

Look, just know this, okay?

WE LOVE NANCY AND WE WILL NOT BE DEFEATED.