Time For Prayer

(Joshua reporting):

Brianne needs a lot of prayer right now - she's about the same, but we're facing a dire situation regarding the bone marrow transplant and the leukemia. The doctors told her on Thursday that they have about a 1 month window to do the bone marrow transplant, and if they don't do within a month, then they probably won't be able to do it. A number of factors are involved including: keeping the donor on standby for so long, the amount of chemo Brianne has had already & the side effects, and the fact that they've given her most of the chemotherapies that work for her kind of leukemia and they haven't yet worked as they wanted. So we need to pray for a miracle: that she'd go into remission, gain strength, and that they'd be able to do the bone marrow transplant. She received chemotherapy today and it's the last that she'll get until they make a decision about what will happen in the future. She won't get any more chemo over the next few weeks and it's especially important that today's dose has the desired impact of putting her into remission.

In other news for Brianne: her sharp pain in her side has gone away and the pneumonia is pretty much under control. They didn't put in the new pic-lines until yesterday, and that went without any major problems. She is still pretty sickly, tired, and fatigued. The chemo she got today made her throw-up twice and made her very nauseous. They won't let her out of the hospital for a few more days as she still has a fever and until that goes down, she'll be stuck there.