Thursday, April 15, 2004

Kenna's Aplastic Anemia Journey - 04.15.2004

April 15, 2004

This morning Carsyn and I went to San Clemente to meet my sister Ann from San Diego. She had a lovely Prayer Quilt for Kenna from a friend's church congregation. It is blessed and then the knots are tied by individuals as they say a prayer for her. The family down there also all had a chance to take part, so now it will be completed by those locally who want to participate.

Kenna's fever is gone, but she remains in isolation receiving precautionary anti-biotics at least through tomorrow. But our sweetie who got swept away by all the nasty drugs is returning. I spent the afternoon playing happily with her while Adrienne went to the dentist, and she was calm and cheerful again.

If you are curios about Kenna's illness or want to potentially help her or others in similar situations if a bone marrow transplant becomes necessary, take a look at this site and consider getting registered now. The doctors feel there would probably be a good chance for a match for Kenna, but they say there is especially a shortage of non-Caucasian groups in the registry.
http://www.marrow.org

Love, MJ