2024-03-20T12:36:10Ztag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/home-away-from-hometag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/779/33512024-03-20T12:36:10ZMartha Douglass<p>Thanks Heather (and Jon) for the regular updates. You are all in our thoughts and prayers, and it helps to know the details!</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/779/33502024-03-20T09:27:43ZJon Daley<p>She is still getting immuno-suppressant drugs (I'm not sure for how long), and she also got more chemo after the transplant, though they called that &quot;mild chemo&quot; again, so I'm not sure how that is related.</p> <p>A nurse told me that her highest risk of infection is from herself (I was asking about the risk of siblings catching something and bringing it home). Faith (and maybe Grace, I can't remember) previously had Epstein-Barr Virus, and I think another one, that isn't a big deal as far as normal people getting it, but it stays in your system forever, and so Grace has the virus hanging around in her system, and now that she is no longer immune to it, it could re-activate itself and cause problems.</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/779/33492024-03-20T01:22:01Zjoyful<p>I'm not sure how it works. And I just realized that technically, she's still in a kind of isolation, just not the kind that restricted her to 6 West.</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/779/33482024-03-20T01:13:40ZLinda Wightman<p>This tells me how little I know about the immune system. I know a BMT leaves you with the immune system of a newborn (but without the boost given by the mother when in utero and through breastmilk). But she now has well-educated 15-year-old bone marrow. Doesn't that help somehow?</p>