March 15, 2006 at 09:49 PM EST

March 15, 2006 at 09:49 PM EST
Please Pray
Well tomorrow is Day +14 in the stem cell world. With that they will be doing a VNTR blood test to check and see if Marrianas cells are taking over Simons bone marrow. We will get a percentage that starts a series of tests for months that will determine if the transplant worked or not. We are excited, anxious and nervous. We will possibly know preliminary results late Friday afternoon. Since so many of you tell us you are checking this site daily, which we apprecaite, we would like to ask for the power of prayer in numbers. We ask that tomorrow you say a prayer to help Simon and ask God to let Marrianas cells find their way to Simons bone marrow and make a new home. We ask that Simons body accept her cells and welcome them. In order for us to have engraftment we need to see his ANC levels about 500 for 3 consecutive days. So far we are at 323 but they change up and down daily just like all the counts do. Its such a number game. So tonight we ask for prayers, lots of them and hope that soon Simon will be well and we can come home. This is the end of the 7th week for us here at the hospital, we are all tired of being apart and long to be at home together. So thank you for the prayers. God Bless Tracy, David, Isabel, Marriana and Simon