Crazy Week

This week has been a little crazy. James has been breathing funny again so they did three X-rays on him throughout the week, also he's had some tummy pain so they have been working on that. They finally think they figured out what is making him so irritated. He has been on Benadryl I guess for too long and that is what is causing him to react this way. So they stopped giving him that, they also increased his pain medication to help with his sores. The sores are getting better but it will probably be another couple days before they are gone. Yesterday they moved us to Phoenix Children's Hospial. We don't really care for this hospital. I guess maybe because we aren't used to it, it's farther away, and at Cardon's we knew everyone and made friends with all the staff. We are going to be here for a few days while they prepare for James' harvest. They have to wait for the "window of opportunity" to harvest his stem cells. They will increase his neupogen dose and as soon as his counts are where they want them they will do the harvest. When they are done I would love to say we could go home but they will probably transfer us back because James is supposed to start Cycle 3 on the 19th. Last night they had to put him on oxygen because when he sleeps he isn't taking deep enough breaths. Hopefully we don't have to stay here too long.