A fun day with Amber

With Keri and Isaac up in Seattle, Amber agreed to watch Mina for the day. Sounds like they had a great day -- drawing babies, watching the ducks in the park (from a safe distance, Amber assures us). Amber says that Mina kept pointing to her painted toenails all day, until Amber finally agreed to paint Mina's toes hot pink. After that, she refused to put her shoes back on, saying "no, dadda!" because she wanted to show her dad.

Keri will arrive home any minute, sounds like the visit was useful. I was able to attend her meeting with the transplant doctor by speaker phone. It seems that Fred Hutch would want to do total body irradiation as a conditioning regimen. We just hate that thought, but the doctor referred to the alternative chemo regimen as "liquid radiation", and Dr. Cowan here at UCSF also said he thought the side effects were just as bad. Ugh.