Sunday, January 27, 2008

We did get a report on Hannah's albumin (nutrition marker) level on Friday. Her albumin went up to 5, from 1.5 14 days ago. The 5 is well within normal levels. With the weight gain she had since last time, as well as all of the supplements and good food we have been concentrating on I wasn't surprised to see it go up, just surprised that it went up by so much. Albumin in your body has a half life of 21 days, which means it does not go up quickly, but recycles about every 21 days. So, though the count is good, it is somewhat suspicious. This could indicate a problem with this test, or a problem with the last test, which somehow was skewed lower than it really was. It's great to see the big number, but not sure that it's really accurate. She will have another test in one month, so we'll have a trend to monitor.

Hannah a bit wiped out by the end of last week, and came home from school early on Friday. She didn't feel that great Friday morning, and by the afternoon was pretty tired, a lot of emotional crying so they called for me to pick her up early. She just relaxed at home, and had some soup. The rest of the weekend was fairly normal with a great horseback riding on Saturday, Colby's lacrosse game on Saturday, a visit to the emergency room on Saturday. Did I say normal?

Here she is, Colby on crutches. She sprained her foot, most likely a ligament during the game on Saturday, and couldn't bear any weight on it at all, so we spent the afternoon in the ER just in case for xrays. Hannah was quite the supporter, wheeling her around in the wheelchair, propping her leg up, keeping the ice pack on her foot. She said that Colby did it for her, so she was going to do it for her sister now. Colby was lucky with no breaks, just the sprain. She is on restriction for a week with crutches and then we'll see how it feels.


I'll leave you with a picture of Hannah and all of her hair! It is coming in evenly, you can barely see the scar from the ventriculostomy at the top of her head. I noticed tonight that is beginning to come in also in the boost area. It is extremely sparse there, one hair here, one hair there, but encouraging to see that it is coming in at all.
xoxo Kim