Yesterday was long. Early in the morning Ben and I headed in for labs. His numbers skyrocketed. The count they are looking at is his white blood cells and they were 390 two days ago and then 1941 yesterday. We only needed anything over 1000 to shoot for the stem cell harvest. They also look some at the stem counts and need something over 100 and he had something over 400 and that before the double dose of hormones that are supposed to increase their numbers.
We heard from our Doctors that we would have surgery this morning but did not get a call back from the surgery center all day and were pretty stressed out. We arrived at the hospital this morning at 645am for a 730am surgery and were not in the computer. It took long enough to get us in the computer that we got bumped this morning for a couple of hours.
Anyway, Ben is in surgery now getting a groin line put in. Once it is in place he will be able to do the stem cell harvest. This one is only a 45 minute surgery. Afterward we hope to have great success on the stem cell harvest and then he will be admitted to begin he next round of chemotherapy. To get Ben to be calm going in to surgery they took Cari into the operating room just for as long as it took to get him under. Great outfit huh?
The other kids are hoping to get to go swimming today. The flu has been running through the whole lot. Sammy was pretty down and out yesterday. Nathan made the most awful sounds all night long and had somewhat of a fever. Lizzy has been pretty mild, other than one bout with a techicolor yawn while Ben and I were checked in before. Megan and Grandma are the only two unscathed so far (and me). We hope that keeps up (especially for grandma).
We heard from our Doctors that we would have surgery this morning but did not get a call back from the surgery center all day and were pretty stressed out. We arrived at the hospital this morning at 645am for a 730am surgery and were not in the computer. It took long enough to get us in the computer that we got bumped this morning for a couple of hours.
Anyway, Ben is in surgery now getting a groin line put in. Once it is in place he will be able to do the stem cell harvest. This one is only a 45 minute surgery. Afterward we hope to have great success on the stem cell harvest and then he will be admitted to begin he next round of chemotherapy. To get Ben to be calm going in to surgery they took Cari into the operating room just for as long as it took to get him under. Great outfit huh?
The other kids are hoping to get to go swimming today. The flu has been running through the whole lot. Sammy was pretty down and out yesterday. Nathan made the most awful sounds all night long and had somewhat of a fever. Lizzy has been pretty mild, other than one bout with a techicolor yawn while Ben and I were checked in before. Megan and Grandma are the only two unscathed so far (and me). We hope that keeps up (especially for grandma).
Love the pic Cari!!! It looks like things are moving again...yeah! We really hope everybody gets better soon so you can enjoy each other. (even though we know you are anyway...no matter what!)Thanks for the update! We're still praying!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat picture is so cute! Have you got my email yet? I love you guys! Can't wait to see you again! We miss you tons! We're still praying! You should hear Obo he's so cute. He says some cute prayers for Ben. So we're praying and fasting and we love you guys tons!
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