Day 66 I want to thank all of you for your very thoughtful Thanksgiving wishes. It always makes me cry when I read the guestbook and think of how many peoples lives Elizabeth has touched! God has a plan. I realized that I have only been on the computer and updated twice since the boys got here last Friday, It is a full time job taking care of Elizabeth but when the boys are here its even that much fuller! We have spent GREAT quality time together and we have loved every minute of this week. Elizabeth has continued to do better with each day- what more can we ask for? She is really going to miss the boys. They have been reading to her and bathing her and feeding her and she really enjoys watching them play the Wii- she thinks they are so funny. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. Three former transplant families( Dax, Brayden and Trevor) all made Dinner for the ten families that were inpatient and all the staff. It was SO nice and delicious! Thank you guys, very much! The hospital had a full turkey dinner, too that they sent up for Elizabeth so we all ate together in our room. We have two little sofas that I pulled together and a table in the middle. The boys decorated placemats and turkeys and crosses for the table and we had a starched white sheet for the tablecloth! It was perfect. Elizabeth wore her Thanksgiving dress Grammie bought her last year and she was So happy. I BELIEVED and she ate turkey and mashed potatoes for lunch and ham and sweet potatoes for dinner! Thank you, Jesus! It was a Thanksgiving we will never forget and ALWAYS be grateful for. I will post some pictures. Her eosinophil (e-o-sin-o-phil) counts have continued to stay down and her skin looks a little better each day. Eosinophils are a white blood cell that normally fight off parasites or drug or allergic reactions. We think hers were elevated due to a drug reaction but they should have come down long ago. No one truly knows what was going on in Elizabeth's body, but all the doctors have tried very hard to fix it. Dr. Sara said when all this is over they are going to write a study to try and get some information out there and maybe help someone else one day- since Elizabeth's rash is VERY RARE! However, we all know how she handles rare and this too she will conquer! She still has a rash from head to toe but it looks so much better. The dermatologist thinks she will peel a couple more times just not as severe and the wound care nurse thinks her skin could stay like this forever- We will all just pray God continues to heal her! I want all our St. Jude friends to know that our family prays for all of you every night and extra special prayers this week for Hunter Gerdes and Mary Kate Rushing. Please check their site and leave them a word of encouragement. God Bless! Keep Praying Keep Believing Love, The Dunfords
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