Update for Jan, 20, 2009

Today started out just fine. The kids were home from school for MLK day and my sister-in-law Joyce (a teacher) was able to watch them all day at home.
For Jodie, Monday's usually mean blood work in the morning, doctor's visit to review blood work and a trip to the hospital for a platelet transfusion. But today she had to get a blood transfusion too, that usually adds on a few extra hours in the hospital in outpatient services.

Around 4pm is when things started to get a little crazy, Elizabeth threw up in her crib after an afternoon nap. I rushed home in a panic hoping it wasn't something more serious. There was no fever, just a little extra cranky, but all in all she was fine.
By this time Jodie was just starting her second unit of blood, with still a platelet transfusion to go. At this rate she wouldn't get out until 8 or 9 pm (she arrived at 12:30 pm).
Already feeling helpless that I couldn't do anything for Jodie, I didn't have much patience with the kids so it was a rough night.
After getting the kids down for bed, I got a call from Jodie that she was having an allergic reaction to the platelets (first time). She had just walked out of the hospital, but could not go back to Outpatient services because they were already closed. She can't go to the emergency room because the risk of germs, viruses etc. She was breaking out in hives and all she could do was rush home and wait for our doctor to call us back. I met Jodie at her mom's house and we spent the next hour praying and calming each other down waiting for the benadryl to do it's job.

It's midnight now, Elizabeth and Jodie are both doing ok, they are resting comfortably. Thank you God!

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Regarding bone marrow donors, the 22 potential donors is now down to 3. The other 19 were either not a good enough match or were unavailable for further testing and typing.
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We prayed a lot today. We prayed that He would deliver Jodie from her SAA. We prayed that he would lead a perfect match marrow donor to us very soon. And we prayed that God would keep watch over the kids.
We approach the throne of grace with hope and confidence, but the hard part remains the waiting. But we wait on the One that can do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine, the One that can and will move mountains.

We praise God for every head bowed and knee bent for us in prayer.

In His Care,
The Gees