As is true of most Minnesota kids, we ate a lot of corn growing up. Corn fields are quite abundant in Minnesota and we did our best to support the local economy. I always thought it was an extremely special treat when we had creamed corn. Just thinking about it today brings back great memories.
When we checked into the hospital 2 weeks ago we were told that for about 2 days after receiving her transplant Jo would smell like creamed corn. No way!!! Having a somewhat entrepreneurial mind, my first thought was, "Why hasn't Gucci thought of this?"
Jo did radiate the sweet smell of creamed corn for about 48 hours after her transplant, but maybe since it was Jo, I didn't think too much of it. However, now is a different story. We often walk laps for exercise on the 11th floor of MD Anderson and we occasionally run across the smell of creamed corn. Instantly, we look around to see if we can identify the patient who must have just got their new stem cells.
By the way...the 11th floor of MD Anderson has 52 patient rooms and every room has a bone marrow or stem cell transplant patient in it. They often have as many as 70 to 80 transplant patients at any one time and very soon, the transplant teams will get 26 more dedicated rooms on another floor.
Jo's status has not changed much and that is what we want to hear. She'll need another 1 to 2 weeks for her blood counts to start coming up and her strength to get to a point where we can take her back to our apartment. Any blog-worthy change of status before then would probably be a hiccup in the road, so keep an eye on the tweets over to the right, but don't be alarmed if there are no major health related blog updates.
2 comments:
Thinking of you lots, Jo. Been wearing my Go Jo Go! bracelet and asking friends to join in prayer for you during your remaining time in the hospital. Thank you, Tim, for the blog and Twitter posts.
I this is Anna Kinsey and I am friends with Valerie and I had stem cell transplant. I am not good at using blogs.... I hope this post ok.
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