When we got home today we got a phone call from our Primary Care Nurse, JoJo. She first apologized for the mess that the blood transfusion turned into and told us that she would get Dr. Singh to provide a letter in Karlee's file. This should eliminate any future issues with getting blood. Then she gave us the great news. Karlee's bone marrow aspirate came back and she is officially in remission. She has less than 1% of her cells that are affected by the leukemia. Remission is considered less than 5% of the cells being affected. They normally expect to have children in remission within the first 4 weeks. This tells us that Karlee is responding very, very well to the treatment. How quickly she responds to the first 4 weeks of treatment also helps determines the next 5 months of treatment. This has also determined that next week Karlee just has to go in for her chemotherapy and doesn't need to have the bone marrow tested again.
Tonight Tanya and Chris came down for a visit. Tanya and Mom took off to the mall for a little girl time and Dad stayed home with Chris and Karlee. Karlee did a great job taking her medicine for Dad. Dad now seems to be the go to guy for medications
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