Once again all our visitors have gone home. Arielle and Seth were here for about 10 days and Lisa was here for 2 weeks they all spent most of their time either sitting with Lex in the hospital room or sitting with her in the apartment, imagine flying all the way to Tel Aviv from TO and doing nothing but sitting in an apartment the entire time, that's love for you and these friends love Lex with all their hearts. Lex's Aunt Donna also came in for a visit, and she brought with her a strong reminder of home, our lifestyle is so different that Donna's visit made me feel a little nostalgic.
Lex is still dealing with the UTI, it's taking it's sweet time in healing, there have been improvements but it's very, very slow. Only Percocet and long soaks in the bath help with the pain, yesterday Lex stayed in the bath for over 2 hours constantly refilling with warm water. I was afraid she'd drown or shrivel up to a raisin but instead she finally emerged feeling better and very clean!
On a positive note her blood-work continues to show healthy engraftment I won't burden you with numbers and statistics but she is getting closer to normal, healthy ranges in all 3 blood groups, something the PMH doctors didn't believe possible. Although, according to my sources they are delighted with Lex's progress thus far. Dr. Gesundheit from the clinic has been updating them regularly, he's doing this for our benefit so that when we return home, PMH can continue Lex's care. You're probably questioning this because of the negative attitude the PMH doctors displayed when Lex relapsed, they really didn't believe that coming to Israel would work, so when Dr. Geshudheit and Professor Slavin offered to keep the PMH doctors informed I questioned it to, but it does make sense, Lex will need follow up care in TO and who else better to provide it? Look at that, I'm writing about bringing Lex home, tears are in my eyes as I realize this, she still has such a long way to go but as every medical professional keeps reminding us getting to this point is somewhat of a miracle, so forgive me for feeling a little more optimistic today, after all it's Chanukah what better time for miracles? Speaking of Chanukah we were surprised by the low key attitude to this festival, no giant Menorah's on every street corner, no decorations anywhere just Sufganiyot in all the bakeries, still, even without all the frippery you somehow know it's Chanukah it's in the air.
I wish you all a healthy, happy Chanukah, Chag Sameach!
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