Avarie doing GREAT!

Avarie has been doing great this week. I just got home last night, so sorry I haven't been able to update and let everyone know how great she is doing. The swelling in her stomach is gone and she is a happy little girl again. She still has a little pain and has not been able to eat or drink yet. She tolerates water, but when we started trying to introduce food back to her she was too scared to eat anything. So we started feeding her through her tummy tube at an incredibly slow rate, but she just couldn't tolerate it and kept throwing it up. The surgeon's are going to give her a few more days to let her bowels rest and then retry food on Sunday. If she can't tolerate her feeds then they are going to do some testing to see if there was some damage done to her colan or intestines.
She is also starting inpatient rehab on Monday. That is intense physical therapy where she lives in the rehab part of the hospital and spends up to 5 hours a day just doing therapy to try to get stronger. She will do 2 weeks of rehab with chemo on the weekend. She is long overdue for her chemo, but the surgeons did not want us to do anything that would jeopardize her white blood counts when we need them to help her keep healing. She can't go too much longer with out chemo or we run the risk of her relapsing, so this next weekend is chemo no matter what.
Transplant still seems on for June, but we found out yesterday that we no longer have a donor. I am not allowed to actually know why, but the Dr hypothesized that perhaps through further testing something came up that made him unsuitable or perhaps he became sick. We're not sure why, but they are relooking for a new donor. They still have a lot to pick from and we are confident that we will relocate a suitable donor.
Big news in our family this week is that we are going to be moving back to Oregon. We will be moving to Milwaukie. We found a large home that we will be living in with Craig's parents. It has a very large downstairs with a great room and large bedroom and bathroom and laundry room. We will have the upstairs with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and a kitchen and great room. It has a great back yard that has a swing set, but I think the current tenants are going to take it with them, they offered to sell it to us for $300, it's not that great of a swing set. I would have maybe paid $75-$100. So if anyone knows of anyone that wants to get rid of a swing set we are in the market for one. My kids have never had one and it sure would be fun to have, we will totally buy it, I am not looking for someone to give us one, just hoping for a good deal.
I think we will be in Milwaukie Ward, which is great because I know quite a few people there and have met some other wonderful people in that ward recently. There is another little girl with Leukemia in that ward, I have become friends with her mom, that will be great support. It feels kind of like we're moving home. Gladstone is where Craig and I both grew up and that whole area feels so comfortable to both of us.
We have been so blessed through this process to have lived where we did when Avarie was diagnosed. That is going to be one of the hardest things about moving. We have made some great friends here and have a wonderful Ward that has been amazing through all of this. I have not always taken the help from them that I should and they figured me out and would just start showing up. They are great people who have helped to lighten my burden and have prayed and fasted for us many times. The Lord definitely directed us to this Ward for our benefit when we were looking to move up here. He knew what lay ahead of us and sent us to the right place. It will be hard to leave some of the friends that we have made here. I know its not like we're moving super far away, but I have loved having such dear friends so close.
My family all lives up here too, but I know them well enough to know I will still see them often, maybe not as often as I do now, and it won't be as close to drive, but we'll still have birthday parties, blessings and our girls night out.