Great news! Actually, I'm very excited...for the first time in 3 years Elise's immune system markers are indicating that her Lupus is starting to quieten.
For those fellows who need an explanation, well...complements are blood things that are consumed by the body when you are fighting something, like a bad infection. The immune system is like the army and army reserves - the army reserves are her compliments. In Elise's case, she is fighting and killing her own cells, her DNA and attacking her cell mitochondria. When these complement markers are normal, then the army reserves aren't fighting. The fighting is more contained to just the basic army now. So it is VERY exciting to finally see the reserves in peace time. There is only one other blood marker that is yet to budge, she still is killing off DNA with her primary army. Hopefully that will soon show signs of calm. Well, that is my explanation anyway!
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| C3 and C4 (bold numbers) are finally in the normal range |
Another first... Jesse had his first and tonight, his third sleep in his new nifty pod. He is happy, the room is bigger than he thought and it's clean (for now), and rather nice. I will take a pic soon and post it.
So now Jesse's old room is being stripped (a combined effort), plaster holes fixed and all the usual things done for painting prep. I am hoping to get it finished and furnished for Poppy's 7th birthday -1 Jan. It will make things sooo much easier... Elise will have room for a desk to study at and won't have to navigate or wheel over Poppy's toys all over the floor, let alone some private space and reduction in accidental wakings due to different bed times/wake times.
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