JK Livin'

When we were in Calgary I knew exactly how many days we had been there and how many days it was until we could go home.  Today, I don't know how many days we have been home, I know we are getting close to day 100, but I don't know how many days we have been home, and that is okay with me.  

Since we arrived back home it has been very busy, busy with Christmas and busy with visiting with family and friends.  We spent the past few weeks the way we would have any other year, which was awesome.  We had Christmas eve at my parents house, and Christmas day with Sarah's family.  It is so nice to be with our families once again, there were numerous times where I stopped to think about how glad I am that we were all together once again.  I am sure we all thought that throughout the holiday season.  New years was spent with friends of ours, normal right?  It has been busy for Sarah and I, but the type of busy what we were desperately longing for in Calgary.  Our boys are doing good and seem to be adjusting well to coming back home.  Sarah and I are also adjusting well, I think we were both worried about coming back to such a busy life again, but so far its going smoothly.

Last week Linden was sick, he was puking etc. and not eating.  The next day Cael and I had the same thing.  We were concerned that Sarah would end up catching the same bug, and sure enough she did.  I called the clinic in Calgary and they requested blood work.  The next day we went to the cross and blood was drawn.  At this point Sarah was already feeling a little better.  After blood was drawn they started an IV of magnesium and potassium because those are usually low with a stomach bug.  Halfway through this the nurse practitioner came back with the blood results which were really good.  Sarah's platelets were 114 and her hemoglobin was 91, her other counts were all in the normal range.  The Nurse said that they look like blood results from a different patient.  She phoned Calgary and was told to discontinue the Potassium and magnesium and give Sarah a half litre of fluid.  We also asked about the bone marrow test that was given before we left Calgary, the only results that she could give us is that there wasn't leukemia found.  I think they might have better results for us for Sarah's appointment on the 10th.  Sarah seems to be doing well with being home, she is however fatigued like they said she would be.  I will try to get her to write a blog to explain...

We recently found out that the singer/piano player on that song Swim by Jack's Mannequin is a leukemia survivor.  Last night we watched his documentary "Dear Jack", it was a pretty decent look into what he had to go through.  He had the same kind of leukemia as Sarah and also underwent a stem cell transplant.  That might explain why the lyrics of that song hit so close to home.

K