As I mentioned on the last post, the first blood culture came out positive showing that her blue colored port (she has a red, blue, and white ports). Two days later the other two ports came out positive as well. When all three are infected this usually means that the catheter that follows after the three ports, going up her neck, is infected. Since Erika has been in the hospital she's been receiving antibiotics to fight G+ bacteria as well as antibiotics to prevent any other infections since she was neutropenic. The last blood culture done came back negative. Doctors wanted to wait two more days to confirm that the culture was negative, which it still was. During the stay she received to bags of blood since she was also anemic (thank you all for blood donations.) Her body pains, for the most part, were under control during the stay through pain medications. As long as she continues with this chemo treatment of the clinical trial she will be in this type of pain. This means more pains to come for the next year and a half. Today, she was given the okay to be discharged. She is scheduled for chemo either this Friday or next Monday depending on her blood counts. Thanks everyone for all your continued support.