Day -2, BMT

Today marked what could be Jade's last dose of chemotherapy EVER! The team began replacing her chemotherapy meds with anti-rejection meds to help ready her body for this amazing gift of healthy cells. So, after eight continuous days of high-dose chemo, the last four of which have been nausea-filled, Jade will have one day of rest before the BIG transplant day - July 3, 2014. 

With the exception of three drugs, most of Jade's medications were switched from oral form to IV, given her nausea over the past few days. Acupressure bracelets were added today, on top of the four (yes, four) anti-nausea meds that she is taking just to help get this nausea under control and give her a real chance to eat and keep down some of the more important oral medications. Whether it was some combination of the meds and the bracelets, or the chemotherapy leaving her system, Jade got some relief later in the day. And we were all able to enjoy that trademark spirit of hers -- singing along to Frozen with reckless abandon, competing fiercely with her big brother on the Wii, and butchering knock-knock jokes.

It is hard to believe that the day is almost upon us. This could be her cure. This will be her cure. 

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