Our Amazing Grace, indeed!

So Gracie's WBC count is at 1200 (or 1.2) as of today -a huge and greatly celebrated leap- with her neutrophils at 900 (or .9). This is very awesome news. The docs are so excited to see her counts steadily rising so quickly and they have set a preliminary goal for our discharge at the end of next week!!!! That would be something like 20 days earlier than the expected average! Of course, to be released, Gracie will be required to do lots of stuff. Firstly, she'll need to be off her pain meds entirely, which we are steadily decreasing everyday. Also, she'll need to be able to take all of her meds orally. Yikes! That will be a real challenge since she is still a bit nauseous and unable to take anything besides water by mouth without gagging. So we'll be working on that as well. I'll also be getting some training to be able to give her the IV Nutrition she's been getting for the past few weeks to keep her nourished until she is ready to eat again.

So much to do but I'm so happy to have such great news to report today. :)