Holding Steady

Adrienne is doing well. She had checkups with her transplant doctor, oncologist, and cardiologist yesterday, as well as a pulmonary function test to assess her lung function. Adrienne has some fibrosis in her lungs as a result of pneumonitis after her first transplant so we watch her lungs closely. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between heart and lung problems. Results from the PFT should be available in the next week. The last PFT showed a drop in the diffusion (that is, how oxygen gets from the lungs into the blood) and an increase in lung capacity so we're interested to see how her lungs are performing. At the next visit on March 23, Adrienne has a CT, echo (ultrasound of the heart), and sees all the doctors again. This will be a long day at the hospital again. We're hoping that her Hodgkin's Disease hasn't grown more.

Once again, Adrienne's port isn't drawing properly. They were only able to draw a small amount of blood after two doses of TPA yesterday. Adrienne will go back in about 10 days to try again.

Today (Saturday) is the big leadership conference that Adrienne has been working on for months through her internship at the Kravis Leadership Institute. This has been a great learning experience and now she gets to see all of her hard work come together. We're sure things will go smoothly. Next weekend, Adrienne is off to Austin, Texas to attend another leadership conference. I'm not sure how she does it all.