This says it all

Jimmy is much better today, and the morphine pump wasn't necessary. Steroid injections have greatly relieved the fever and inflammation, and we're hopeful that we are now going into the upswing phase. His WBC is still only .4, but his hematocrit and platelets look good, so maybe we'll see a big jump in the white blood count soon. It takes the body a year to completely recover from a transplant, and Jimmy's had two in four months, so he's doing extremely well, considering.

Our little lap chart in the hall speaks volumes about Jimmy's condition from day to day. Yesterday it took intense badgering from Nurse Lisa and me to get two reluctant laps out of him, and today he walked the prescribed mile without complaint. I walk a lot by myself when Jimmy's sleeping, and started marking those laps with small dots.