Day -3

Elle is sleeping right now and receiving her single dose of chemo. She weighs in at 6.545 kilos (almost 14 1/2 pounds) - only 4 pounds less than Maddie. She's been doing great - strong like bull (said in a Russian accent). All the doctors and nurses talk about how beautiful, cute, and mellow she is. Obviously, they are not in the room to hear her wrath when she is hungry.

The report so far is that her marrow looks good. They were able to get a good harvest which is always the problem when they get a baby so young. We keep hoping that nothing goes wrong in the lab. Today, they are starting to add the virus to the stem cells in hopes that the fixed ADA gene will get inserted into Elle's stem cells. They will do this for 3 days, and on Monday (Day 0), they will wash the cells, test them for any bacterial growth (we need this to be negative), then transfuse the cells back into Elle. We are wishing the next few days will be uneventful.

Last night as we were trying to watch the Colbert Report on Fernando's laptop, we got the Windows 7 blue screen of death. Why Bill why? I think Fernando and I have been through enough. Is it because I work for Adobe now?