Facebook updates!

Sorry for the delay posting the Facebook updates. I was finally able to visit Ali in Houston this weekend and had few mins to spare. Here is the updates over the last few days. There is some really great news in here!!!
 
Friday June 11 at 8:30am
Chris Smallwood Update - Team Ali - Day 7 - Good night last night !! All of Ali's vitals are great , yes great!!! NO FEVER since yesterday morning !! Oxygen level is 99% and that is after they have started lowering the ventilator. Her tummy has began to decrease in size and has become soft again instead of rock hard. Doc says she is... rebounding by leaps and bounds and is on her way to hopefully being done with the ventilator very soon. We are praying for no more setbacks.

Friday June 11 at 10:03am
Chris Smallwood Team Ali Update - Just got a call from my wife and the doc just visited. THE LEUKEMIA CELLS ARE 100% GONE FROM ALI'S BLOOD !!! This was expected news but great news as well. Now the long road to keeping it gone begins. My baby is fighting her way back and in a big way. Bone Marrow biopsy tomorrow to see if there is any... Leukemia there and then they will begin to take her off the ventilator.

Saturday June 12 at 7:14am
Chris Smallwood Good morning Team Ali !! She had a very good night last night. All vitals are excellent, I got an I love you from her, she had a sponge bath, she somehow let me know that she wants me to get her a nintendo ds,,hmm ? Today she is going around 10am for her bone marrow biopsy. We are praying that they find nothing as in the bloodwork.

Saturday June 12 at 1:52pm
Chris Smallwood Update: they just finished the bone marrow procedure and will have results back monday. doc says Ali did great. All vitals are awesome. More good news, they have started weening her off the ventilator, say it is about a two day process, she is sooo ready for that to come out. Chem is next up for today, pray for her strength, she is so tired.

Saturday June 12 at 7:00pm
Chris Smallwood Ali is resting comfortably after a long day. She had a bone marrow procedure and chemotherapy all in one day. Our little trooper is getting ansty. She is ready to get up and get moving, she has been really up and alert all afternoon even though she is on the ventilator. She is very excited, her Uncle Niki and Aunt Vero...nica brought her a Nintendo DS she was so happy, it really brightened up her day. Tomorrow they start bringing her off the ventilator even more so that is welcomed news.

Sunday June 13 at 7:32 am
Chris Smallwood Update - Team Ali - Day 9 - She had a very good night and got plenty of really much needed sleep. All numbers look good and they are going to turn down the ventilator even more today so that hopefully her lungs will be ready to go tomorrow for them to remove breathing tube. No major meds today, no tests, should be a laid back day for my little princess.

Sunday June 13 at 12:51pm
Chris Smallwood Team Ali , good news - Ali may have the breathing tube out quicker than they thought. She is going through a couple test today and if all is good then she may get it taken out this evening. If they don't want to do it this evening then they will do it tomorrow morning. Good news !

Sunday June 13 at 3:04
Chris Smallwood UPDATE - excellent news for TEAM ALI ! She is breathing all by herself. The ventilator is turned off and she is rockin and rollin. She is having a bad day mentally, she is ready to go home. As soon as this tube is taken out of her throat hopefully we will be headed back upstairs to her original room. I am sure that will put some pep in her step.

Sunday June 13 8:14pm
Chris Smallwood Update - today was a rough day but a good one. All vitals remained on course, blood sugar dropped to an acceptable level, got some good rest. The chemo yesterday combined with the bone marrow procedure caused alot of stress and today she was recuperating. She was visited by her Aunt/Godmother Veronica and her Kindergar...ten Teacher Mrs. Olsen, that lifted her spirits a bit but she was still pooped out. Better days to come !

Sunday June 13 8:18pm
Chris Smallwood We are up to 309 members strong on Team Ali, spread the word !!

Monday June 14 ~ 9:00am
Chris Smallwood UPDATE Team Ali - Day 10 - ALI IS OFF THE VENTILATOR AND THE BREATHING TUBE IS OUT !!!! yyyEEEHAAAWW!!! She was so exhausted and discouraged yesterday and I know that this has lifted her spirits so much. God willing she will be back upstairs in her regular room soon and then home by the end of the week, yes I am optimistic.