Not much news

Sorry for not posting for a while… I usually try to update once a week but not much new has been happening for the last 10 days; we are pretty tired of antibiotics I am getting for pneumonia as they don’t let us sleep well and I still drive every other day to MDA so all in all it’s taking a toll on us. Even on Thanksgiving day we were at MDA for about 3 hours or so. Tuesday I will be doing scans to see if pneumonia is gone so I will give an update Thursday or so. Apparently my type of pneumonia (CMV) is pretty rare among autologus transplant patients and among allo patients it can be deadly; so we definitely pray to be relieved of this test. Besides, it’s so cold now I have to be extra careful to not catch any cold or inflammation of some sort.

Other than that, we are doing ok – Andryusha amazes us with new things every day, he can mimic words pretty well (does that count for talking?!) and a few days ago he learned to walk backwards and to walk uphill and downhill – he seams to get very happy with every new accomplishment and so are we! Oh, and he loves to walk, I think yesterday he walked at least half a mile all by himself! No wonder he knows how to say in Russian ‘go for a walk’ – ‘gulyat’! Next time, I’ll try to post some fresh pics of Andryusha as a polar teddy bear :)