Mon, July 9

Hi everyone, it's a message from me(Chris) this time, not Hillary......I guess the drop in Hillary's cell count knocked her out a little as she's back at Stanford for what should be brief stay...similar to last month. Luckily she feels well, even better than she did last month when we were there for 5 days. She woke up Sat at 3am with a little fever, so we packed up and went into Stanford. It was pretty efficient as we were in a room by 4:30 am as they did some blood tests and gave her some antibiotics. The fever was mostly gone Sat, and was even less on Sunday. Today she hasn't had any fever and we're hoping she'll be out Wed or so, but it really depends on when they are comfortable with the level of her white blood cells. We're back at the same wing that we spend the first 3 1/2 weeks in Stanford and we are seeing some of the same nurses....the first one she had came in and gave Hillary a big hug....I guess she missed Hillary or something. They really are so nice there. Her outpatient Dr, Dr Medeiros, is the one currently on rounds each morning with the team, which is nice, since he knows her well. Similar to last month, they don't seem too concerned at all as they've said it's just some bacteria that she couldn't fight off being so low in white blood cells, so she should be over it very soon. With being at the hospital so early on Sat and up again Sun am, we actually got to watch Wimbledon finals live (with the men's final being exceptional), which was a bonus....though next year we'll be happy to watch the taped delayed version instead of the live 6am broadcast.
I just got a text message from her - she's on walk number two, has a friend coming by this afternoon, and I'll get out of work early to be there late afternoon and stay over for another slumber party. Her mom already had a flight out here and gets in Tue evening and will be here until Sat am. (I guess she'll get to reacquaint herself with Stanford for a few days.)

love,
c (& h)