Earlier this week, Jo and I traveled to Bethesda, MD for her 6 month checkup Tuesday morning at the NIH. It's hard to believe it has been 6 months since we were there for her ATG treatment! The primary physicians were not in town, but we did get to see one of the attending fellows and Jo did have a bone marrow aspiration and biopsy. We should have the results by the end of next week.
The fellow, Dr. Aliu was a very interesting "fellow". He claims to have just gotten over malaria, but it wasn't that big of a deal to him. He says he has had malaria a hundred times. Dr. Aliu said that he was very pleased with all of Jo's blood counts, but only Dr. Young or Dr. Scheinberg had the authority to label Jo as "responding" to the ATG and give us the green light for Jo's hip surgeries. We are pretty sure they wouldn't have given us the permission we are looking for until after they had a chance to see the bone marrow results anyway.
So, we hope to get good news next week and get official permission to take the next steps. Speaking of next steps, Anna is just about ready to walk. She pushes her walker all over the house at break-neck speed and she will stand for several seconds without holding on to anything before plopping down on her homper (that's Texan for dupa - which is Polish for buttocks).
2 comments:
I'm not sure if you remember me Tim, but Jo will, she's amazing and always remembers EVERYONE!!!
I haven't talked to Jo in a few years and only just stumbled upon this site by chance...
I am so sorry you've gone through so much, but am grateful you are blessed enough to have each other and your adorable little little :D Your daughter is sooooo unbelievably cute and those theme pictures are the sweetest!
Please, please, please keep up the updates. I'll be checkin' back often.
My love and prayers go out to you,
Angela
Hi Tim and Jo,
Looks like the direction is good. We miss you both and think of you often.
Love to you all,
Michael & Michele
Barr Burton
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