Morgan Donato’s Blog

Well the Auto show is in town and the Dad’s have been pretty busy.  For that matter so are the Mom’s!  As it worked out, it turned into Dad’s and Daughter’s day at work, go figure!  So what do the smart Dad’s do, we put them to work!  Morgan and Jenna became bored with us, [...]

The doctors called, and GREAT news, we are still 100% donor bone marrow.  Morgan is still in remission.  We have only one obstacle that we are concentrating on, and that is Morgan’s immune system.  Her numbers there seem to be down, SOooo, we will be going into the day hospital once a month for some [...]

Morgan has decided that it is time for her to make her own posts.  However she is in the dictation mode and not full blown writer mode yet.
Morgan has been making great progress in the last few months, and the weaning process seems to be winding down.  She is down to two pills a day.  [...]

Just finished with our clinic appointment, and Morgan has been moved to one visit every 3 weeks!  Yeah!  Her skin is healing well, just some small rough patches, and her scalp is a little dry with some GVHD, but all together looks great.  Her gut GVHD is slowly recovering as well.
I asked how she was [...]

Morgan really seems to be doing well!  We were supposed to go to clinic last week, but they called and moved us to this week, so 3 weeks since our last check-up.  This is great news, if they were concerned, we would be there weekly.  The doctors mentioned last check-up that Morgan was pacing so [...]

I KNOW!  I have not updated in a looooooong time.  Let’s go with the old saying “No news is good news.” K?  No?  Oy!  So, we are back from our doctor visit today, and Morgan is maintaining her weight, and has been taken off 2 more of her medications!!!!  Her GVHD is just a little [...]

One year ago today, my definition of normal changed.  Today is the day, one year ago, that we were told that Morgan HAD cancer.  I will always remember that moment of complete silence when the doctors looked at us and told us what was about to happen.  A lot has happened in the year we [...]

Morgan continues to do well.  So well in fact, that she was able to go to the Hanna Montana concert with tickets given to her by her friends at Children Hospital.  Thanks CHOP!  Morgan had to wear her mask on the way in, and was told by the Doctors that if any one was coughing [...]

All is going fairly well with Morgan.  Her skin is quite dry, and she sleeps like a basset hound till about 10am each morning - this, I can take!  I received a call from Morgan’s BFF’s dad regarding the Swine Flu vaccination and how it pertains to Morgan.
The vaccination is a live virus if taken [...]

Thank you all for the (how do I say) calls to my parents asking when the hec I was going to update this blog.  I know, I know, in order not to get the calls, updating the blog is what gets it done.  So where are we?  Although the last photo on this site showed [...]