Feb 3: Bone Marrow Biopsy Day

We got up at our usual time (6:30 am) to get Sara and Drew off to school. Mike took care of that. Jessie and I, bags packed, left to pick up her boyfriend, Colin. He and Jessie talked the night before and he decided he wanted to be there. It was the best decision ever. He kept her preoccupied with games on his tablet. They were laughing, talking and just being with each other the whole time. When she was brought back to the room after the procedure and sleeping, I heard him whisper to me, "She is so beautiful when she is sleeping". When she was waking up, his face was 10 inches away from hers. He wanted to be the first thing she saw when she woke up. He was very patient and caring. He fed her crackers and held her juice for her to sip during the 1/2 hour coming out of the anesthesia. The doctor said the procedure went well (a nurse practitioner did it) and to come back in an hour after eating lunch in the cafeteria for the results. We did. When we came back up, the doctor came in almost right away to let us know the results were not definitive. No tests were positive that they could do immediately. He did tell Jessie that we could go home for the weekend, but to watch out for bad headache and bad stomach ache. It could be a sign of bleeding. They were doing more tests (he called them the finger print of the cells) and might have some results on Saturday, but most likely on Monday. They had us make an appointment in the clinic at Children's for Monday at 12:30pm and we went home with still many questions.