Happy Easter!

Keri and Grandma made a really nice Easter basket for Mina and Isaac, complete with plastic grass and plastic eggs filled with goldfish crackers. Keri also brought some festive Easter cookies from the local grocery store. Mina was napping when they arrived, but sat right up as soon as she spied the basket. Then we spent an hour and a half in the playroom by ourselves. Mina had a ball again, playing with the balls and the little kitchen set and the easter stickers. She asked to paint again; they have a setup with thick paints, a brush, and paper hung vertically. But everything had been put away for the day and we didn't feel like dragging it all out again. Then Lyn bought us takeout Indian food from our favorite local restaurant. Not your traditional Easter dinner, but it felt festive enough.

Mina Brigitta is still hanging in there with a low-grade fever around 37.5 (99.5). She still has plenty of energy and a reasonably good appetite. Her cough has definitely gotten worse, and the doctors and nurses have started paying attention to it. Her lungs sound just fine, so it doesn't look like it's going to develop into anything serious. But with all of her counts low, even her lymphocytes, she's very vulnerable. My biggest fear, apart from a serious infection, is that her fever will drift across the magic 38 mark and won't respond to antibiotics because it's being caused by a low-grade virus. They would then quickly prescribe an antifungal, which I think is what made her so nauseous last time around. Would be nice to be able to avoid the big guns this time around and keep her strong going into the transplant. We'll be holding our breath the next few days.