I like to refer to Bodie's transplant summer as Sierra's "soft launch." Completely unexpectedly, I was forced to learn to live 500 miles away from my sweet girl...

I've been meaning to write this post all summer, but kept delaying it because I wanted to wait to write it until I had something to post about...

Our life has been pretty chaotic as of late. In the past 3 weeks Bodie had an emergent unplanned hospital admission, got out in time to take his...

After last night's overnight IVIG infusion, Bodie's platelets jumped up to 43,000! He's still not at a normal range of 140,000 - 440,000 - but at least he...

So the last couple of days have been a crash course in Biology, Immunology and platelet development and consumption. To be honest, I'm still not sure I completely...

After getting settled into our room on the Hemoc floor late Wednesday night, they checked Bodie's platelets again (they had dropped to 7,000) and did a platelet infusion....

After recovering from CMV and returning to school in March, Bodie has thankfully had a fairly uneventful period of growth and rest...until this past week, when his weekly...

The good news is, we're back home! We returned home Tues, the 11th, and have been settling back in since then. Physically, Bodie has recovered well, and his...

Bodie was discharged Thursday night, to the local Ronald McDonald House! He had follow-up labs Friday morning, which looked pretty good. His CMV levels continue to trend down,...

Bodie tested positive for Norovirus this weekend (yes, the gross cruise ship barfing disease that's all the rage this cold and flu season). The general consensus is that...