It's Been Awhile....

Yes, it's been awhile since we've posted any new updates. Looking at it from a positive side, no new posts for a couple of weeks must mean everything is good, right? That has beent he case here for the most part. Ryan has been enjoying being back home after his 3 week stay at the BMT Unit. He can eat when he wants and what he wants. He can sleep when he wants and doesn't get woke up at 4:00am every morning for blood work and, most importantly, he has many more satellite TV channels to choose from! We still have to take him back to the hospital about every 3 days or so for blood work and vitals. He's had to have platelets a couple of times and his white blood counts haven't been rising like they should. His white count has been hovering around 2,000. A normal count is between 4,200 and just below 11,000, so that's a bit worrisome. His greatest risk right now is infection. We are trying to keep the house sterilized and clean but it's not always an easy thing to do. He's done an almost feinting thing a couple of times recently but hasn't quite hit the floor in a stupor! We are still greatful that he's come through in relatively good shape and that the prognosis is good. When we were at the BMT Unit last week, a young couple came in with a newborn baby. The husband has non-hodgkins lymphoma. We asked about their situation. Their baby is 3 months old and they've been married just a short time. He was diagnosed in December. They looked too young to be married and with a baby let alone to have to go through something like this too. Sad! We also found out this week that the wife of some very good friends of ours has liver cancer. They were in our last ward and have kids the same age as ours and always hung out together. Their one boy is on his mission in California and just passed his one year mark. A couple of summers ago, they invited us to spend a few days with them at their family ranch in Wyoming where we got to go horseback riding and just hang out. Judy made us the best swedish pancakes I've ever had (sorry Grandma Adams!). Our hearts ache for them and our prayers are with them.