Family album My Early Years Jenny at 8 months Jenny at 9 months Jenny's 1st birthday (May 23, 1977) Jenny at 13 months My Kid Years Jenny 4 and brother Jason 3 Jenny at 6, Jason 5 Jenny 7 and brother Jason 6 on the first day of school (grades 2 and 1, respectively)...
May 19, 1999 - A much-awaited call came from the University of Minnesota yesterday. We have a bone marrow donor! Our donor is a 22 year old male from the U.S. He will have his bone marrow harvested June 17th! Jenny will begin out-patient treatment at the University of...
From: "Smith, Dianne" Dianne.Smith@mpls.frb.org So much has happened in the past two weeks. Jenny has won the heart of every doctor and nurse that has worked with her! She is so strong and has total confidence in a successful transplant. Our "work up" week consisted...
Dianne called from the hospital today and asked that I forward an update on Jenny's progress. Since the transplant eleven days ago, Jenny has had good days and bad days but nothing unexpected. Jenny is progressing very well, practically a "textbook case" according to...
I received great news from Dianne today! Today is Day 15 after the transplant. For the past two days, Jenny's white blood cell counts have been at 600. Today they reached 1000! This is fantastic news! Next Thursday is Day 21. At that time, they will perform the DNA...
From: "Smith, Dianne" <Dianne.Smith@mpls.frb.org> Jenny's white blood cells (WBC) and absolute neutrafil count (ANC) continued to climb since their first show on Day +9. Yesterday was Day +20 and her WBC was 1400 and her ANC was 1300; so we were discharged!...
From: "Smith, Dianne" Dianne.Smith@mpls.frb.org Since we got home from Fairview-University Hospital on July 7, we have become efficient RNs. We have been hooking Jenny up to an IV at night, flushing the lines and changing the dressing to the Hickman catheter, and...
From: "Smith, Dianne" Dianne.Smith@mpls.frb.org First the bad news: (if you're impatient, skip to the end for the good news!) As many of you already know, Jenny has had some setbacks and recently has become very weak and zombie-like. In fact, she has been back in the...
From: "Smith, Dianne" Dianne.Smith@mpls.frb.org While we were in the hospital, Jenny received antibiotics for fungal, viral and bacterial infections. They do this immediately, because it would take too long to identify what kind of infection is causing the elevated...