Round 2

Henry's rash is starting to come back a bit, so the doctors decided today that he should go back into the hospital on Saturday instead of Wednesday. So we'll start round two on Saturday. He's been doing sooo well! Playing and smiling and happy, talking to everyone and playing peek a boo with everyone. He's even more of a flirt now than before if that's possible. The nurses just melt when he smiles at them. He waved at the Doctor today and she just about cried again.. she's pregnant so maybe more emotional than normal but it made her day. What power he has.. ahhaha Anyway, we also found out that Elizabeth isn't a match for the bone marrow. They look at six different "things" when matching and Henry, of course, has one very unique thing so we'll have to depend on the database for donors. Henry has never been one to "fit the norm" so I don't know why I was suprised. Oh well. We're hoping that he doesn't need the bone marrow transplant. He seems to be really responding well to the treatment. His ANC is well over three thousand which is incredible! And his white cells are up and so are his platelets. All on their own, which means there is less LCH in the bone marrow. He did get a blood transplant today, but his counts held out longer than they were before. So definate progress!
This time around we shouldn't be in the hospital quite so long. Probably two and half to three weeks. Depends on how fast he recovers.

Back at home, as some may know, Joel is having some very bad luck! Not sure what else to call it. After figuring out the day shift schedule at work, so that he could take care of Elizabeth and work, Elizabeth got sick. So Joel asked for another week off of work to take care of her, then he got sick and asked for another week off, and yesterday he fractured his toe!!!! So now he's out for possibly six weeks. We are sooooo blessed to have a good job. I think the Lord has a pretty good sense of humor, not sure Joel would agree, but it's definately been an interesting few weeks. Elizabeth will head down to Granny Annie's house in Idaho in a few weeks and then when Henry is recovered from this round and back on maitanence, she'll come back here. Joel's considering writting a book about the worse year of his life. I'm sure that will only set him up for worse years but it would definately make you laugh and cry at the same time! So those of you with Henry in your prayers, perhaps you could also include Joel and Elizabeth! :) I just keep thinking of Elder Worthlin's talk about "come what may and love it!" And when he told us to learn to laugh more, instead of getting angry over things that happen we should laugh over them! So we're trying to have a good laugh over this one. I'm wondering what the Lord has in store for us next. COME WHAT MAY!!!! :)