Weekly Update

It has been quite a crazy week around here. The Giants won the Super Bowl (and being the only Giant fan in the house, at least I was happy!) A stomach bug hit the house and started with Tucker and ended with Pam. (Griffin and I seemed to escape it!). A few snow days and delayed openings of school for the boys, and lots of shoveling for me (I think a snowblower is moving ahead of the flat screen TV on my wish list!). Everyone seems to be healthy in time for Tucker's 10th birthday this Sunday.
We did get some good news today at our weekly visit at DHMC. Pam had a bone marrow extraction last week and they had some results. It showed that 85% of the marrow is now from the donor. This is good news, that means that the engraftment is moving forward nicely. We are still a ways away from a scan to look for disease, but this is certainly good news in terms of the transplant actually taking hold. Now we just wait and see if it keeps moving forward.
In the middle of all this Pam had a great few days and felt good enough to go snow shoeing on Wednesday at the Water Shed in Bristol. She always feels great when she comes back from her walks around town. She is doing a 2.6 (not 2.5 she was firm on that) walk around the village most every day now.

We will update you next week, thanks for all the support, wishes, meals, and energy!
The Paradee Clan.