Praise The Lord! Engraftment Has Taken Place!

With pure joy and nothing but thankfulness in our hearts to the Lord we are happy to report that Mom's bone marrow transplant has engrafted as of this morning! She was awoken by a team of very happy nurses at 5:30 this morning who were elated to tell Mom her white blood cell counts have reached .7 which is the point of engraftment! It is clear to us the Lord has His guidance and providential hand working in all of this as it has only been 19 days since the transplant took place! 
She was able to leave her room this morning for the first time since the transplant. She was very excited to make the journey down to the cafeteria. Later today she hopes to venture outside for some fresh air as well!
If things continue as they are, she hopes to return home this coming Wednesday already. We are so happy that she is able to go home and recover in the comfort of her own home. She will even be able to spend Mother's day at home, something we didn't think would be possible.
We know her going home will have a whole set of new challenges and life will be busy with many appointments. She is still awaiting the 100 day period to be over. During this period her nutrition is carefully watched, and she is not able to eat certain foods as her immune system will still be very weak. For the foreseeable future they will also be closely monitoring her for signs of graft versus host disease. We will continue to pray that she will not suffer too much from the side effects of this.
Thanks again for your continued prayers and support. Please continue to hold her up in prayer as she begins this new part of her journey.

"Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion". Psalm 103:2-4