The immunosuppressive drug Prevents the rejection of transplanted organs and tissues. It kills her immune system so that her body can accept my bone marrow. The immunosuppressive drug is called ATG which is an antibody from a horse.
ATG:They take a humans white blood cells, inject them into a horse, the horse generates antibodies to kill off the white blood cells, they take the horses blood, filter out the antibodies, put them in a bottle and name it ATG ha ha ha and then they inject it into sarah, killing off her white blood cells... no wonder it looked like she was on her death bed... because they are killing off apart of her in order for her body to accept something new!!! This is all so crazy. She also gained 15 pounds in 3 days, then she lost 6 pounds today. Quote from sarah: "I feel like I'm doing something wrong"... We keep trying to tell her that she is being very strong and that she can't control the reactions her body is having from the chemo and immunosuppressive drugs.
Sarah is on her last dose of the ATG and will get her last dose of chemo probably within the hour. Then tomorrow is her rest day!!! yay, maybe her and mom can get some rest now... some people think that when you go to the hospital your able to get some rest... this is the last place you can rest ha ha.
Another thing that happened today: Some of my dads friends Ray Gunn and his wife came to the hospital and gave Sarah and I a blessing:):):) it was so beautiful and they are the sweetest people. Anyways just thought I would give a quick update.
*Love you all*
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