In full remission!!!!!!!

We just got home from Salt Lake.  The doctor told Alyssa that she is in full remission.  Everything else looks great.  She is a little low on Vitamin D so she has to take some supplements.  They told her to go about living her life.  She will need to monitor her blood and bone marrow for the next year or so.  She will have to go up to the clinic every two months and they will do a blood test one month and the other month they will do a bone marrow biopsy. 

We are so happy that her life has been spared and she go on and live her life.  She is going to move to Provo next Friday.  She is going to take 7 credits in the fall and work part time.  She is getting pretty excited.  I am a little scared to let her live on her own but I will get over it.

Bryan found a place to live in Ogden (this is where he is going to school) and will be moving sometime this month.  He is excited to be close to his school.  I got a job in Logan so we will be moving somewhere in Cache Valley.  Logan is about 30 minutes from where we are living right now.  We have to go through a mountain pass and it is not fun during the winter.  We would be about hour away from Bryan, 2 hours from Kelsey and 2 1/2 hours from Alyssa.  This is so much better than 16 hours!

We have renters moving into our house this weekend.  We still have it on the on the market but this renter wants to buy it but just can't swing it right now financially.  We will probably rent something in Logan for awhile until it gets sold.  Life is sooooooooo good!

All the tests have been done

All of Alyssa's tests are done and we are waiting for the results.  We will go back on the 11th of August to see what the results are.  They told her when she had her tests done that her numbers look good on paper. 

She has decided to go back to school in August.  She has 13 credits to take.  She is only going to take 7 this semester and 6 next semester.  Her classes that she needs to take for her major are only offered in January.  She is just taking classes that sounded fun to her to get the credits in.  She is in the process of taking her tests that she missed last November.  One professor doesn't come in during the summer so she can't do anything with that class until after school starts.  She found an apartment in Provo that is really nice.  She has her own room and is very clean.  I am excited for her but also very nervous.  I am glad that she is starting to get her own life back.


Still looking for a job, waiting for our house to sell.  This is getting very old.  I have forgotten what my things look like that are in the storage units.  Keep you posted on the 11th.

July 27th is the Day

We went to the clinic on the 11th and they have lifted all restrictions for Alyssa.  She is trying to find a job and deciding if she wants to go to Provo in the fall or winter.  Decisions, decisions, decisions....  She goes on the 27th to have all of the tests done.  On the 11th of August we go back to the clinic to have them tell us that she is in full remission.  I will do better at updating around the 11th. 

We have kind of a offer on our home.  It is contingent on the buyers selling their home.  It is still on the market and they have 12 hours to respond to any offers that we get.  They have 60 days to sell their house.  If it doesn't sell by then they can walk away from the offer.  Hopefully this will work we are really wanting to get into our own home.

I have a job interview with USU (Utah State University) on Monday.  I hope that I get it.  I think that it would be great to work there.  It will be a receptionist  job and part time.  Maybe I could go back to school....  Wish me luck!

We are down to one month appointments

We just got home from our clinic visit.  We didn't go last week because the clinic called  and told us that they were slammed with patients.  They asked us if we could go to Bear River Hospital to get her blood work done.   We did that and they told her to stay off bactrim for another week.  They give her bactrim to protect her from a fungus that she  could get after a transplant.  The reason that they told her to stay off of it for another week is that it was making her platelet counts come down.  After seeing them today they told us that her platelet counts were 144.  Normal is 150.  They told her to take the bactrim 3 times a week.  On next Friday we have to go back to Bear River to get her blood taken again.  If her counts are still coming up then she will continue taking it 3 times a week.  If the counts go down then they will adjust it.  We don't have to go back to the clinic until the 11th of July.  It feels great not to have to drive to Salt Lake every week.

Alyssa has had an emotional last couple of weeks.  She is having a hard time dealing with everyone's life continuing and hers just stopped abruptly.  She is trying to make some friends at the single's ward here (that is a church group that is made of kids her age).  She is trying to find a office job right now.  I think that she is afraid to get back to studying her classes that she needs to take the finals in.  I am trying to get my life back to normal and she is a little jealous of that.

On a side note, we still haven't sold our house.  We have lots of lookers but no buyers.  Does anyone want to buy our house????   I got a part time job at the quilt store here in Brigham City.  I am very excited about it.  Bryan is still looking for a job.  Kelsey is doing good at her job and is going to start school in July.  Kirk is liking working from home.  Life is good.

Another visit to the clinic

We went to the clinic today again.  Everything looks good.  Alyssa will be off the steroids on the 2nd to June.  She is very excited to do that.  When that happens we will not have to go to the clinic every week.  They told her that she can go back to work as long as it is not with a lot of people.  She is go to see what she can find in a office setting instead of in the food setting where she was working at school.  She is so excited because Memorial day is the first holiday since November that she won't be in the hospital.  Hope everyone has a safe and happy memorial day. 

We are moving again

We got released from Salt Lake Valley.  The doctors said that Alyssa is doing better and we could now move to Brigham City with my parents.  I swear this moving thing is getting old.  I will be soooooooo glad when we don't have to move again.  We moved all of our stuff out of Kirk's mom's house today and into the storage unit.  We are going to Brigham City tomorrow.  We will still have to come up to the clinic every week.  I guess that is all that is going on right now. 

Clinic visit

We went to the clinic on Friday and the doctors are very pleased.  Her numbers are like a healthy 22 year old.  Her rash is starting to look better.  We need to stay in SLC for a little while longer to see what her rash does.  We need to go back to the clinic on Friday and we will know more then.  She gets tired very easy but she is very glad that she is out of the hospital.  She got to wear her contacts yesterday after wearing her glasses since November.  She was pretty excited about that.  We still have to be careful of germs and crowds of people until she has reached her 100 days out of transplant. 


Our house has been shown quite a few times.  We hope that it will sell soon.  Hope all the Mother's reading this had a good day yesterday.