100-DAY CHECK UP!!
Welcome back to the grand adventure! Here, have a picture of Hanna about to give up half the blood in her body to the blood test people at Mayo Clinic/Med City. Eleven vials this time! We made a quick trip to Mayo for Hanna's 100-day post Stem Cell Transplant checkup (and celebration). We flew over on Monday. Attended a full day's worth of tests and appointments. And then flew home on Wednesday. We stayed at the same home we stayed in for two months last Fall. We are starting to call it our "second home". Rochester is a fine city and it feels like home too. First up was the very extremely early 7:30am (5:30 in our time zone) Blood Draw. (See above). 8:00 was the Bone Marrow Biopsy. This was Hanna's third time to have a drill or needle plunged through her hip into the bone marrow to take a sample and see how much of it is cancer. Good news and Bad news on this one. Bad news first. This time, for the first time ever, it hurt. Not unbearable, but about 30 seconds of ...