Sick

Deana is hot! No really she has a temperature of 103 Degrees. For the last three days her temperature has not sunk below three digits. Deana caught a bug from somewhere and it is kicking her but. Besides the fever she has a nasty cough, vomitting, headache, chills, and body ache. Combine that with the fact that she is at her lowest point count wise and I have a miserable wife. She has to get four units of blood. That is two more units then she has ever had. Plus she needs six units of platelets, four more than she has ever needed. Deana's white blood cell count is at .06. In a less descriptive words she is sick! In a good news/bad news update Deana has her bone marrow transplant consultation on December 11. I have found some basic information about the transplant. The cost without complication for a bone marrow transplant is $250,000! Fred Hutchinson also states that a minimum amount of $3000 a month is necessary outside of medical expenses. Plus we will have to live with in 20 minutes of the Hutch. (I think a part of that $3000 a month is the need to rent a place!) So if everyone could start thinking about how I could start fundraising for the transplant I could use all the ideas I can get. I have no idea how much my insurance covers, and I know they wont pony up the $9000 of other cost of living expenses. (That number is only accurate if Deana doesn't have any complication and the process is only three months. And we all know we are talking about Deana! :) ) Obviously I will know more on the 11th but I have a feeling that the transplant is going to be a go. So that is it for now. My apologies to Dad I told him I would post last night and did not! Hope all is well with everyone and everyone is getting ready for Christmas. Deana and I had to get a fake tree! :(