Transplant Day

Well the day started off rocky, about 3:30am James woke up crying and then threw up all over his bed. After I got him cleaned up he started to shiver and shake like he was having a seizure. I called the nurse in and she took his vitals and turns out James had a fever of 104. For James anything is a fever over 100.4 so this was a pretty big fever. Usually when he gets a high fever his whole body starts to shake. His feet were also freezing cold which isn't a good sign. So they took some blood cultures and called a doctor to come check him out. They gave him some Tylenol and two different antibiotics. The doctor came and looked at him and said his feet are cold probably because he isn't hydrated enough, so they hurried a bag in and got it going quick. The blood cultures came back perfectly normal so they think he got a fever cause he was dehydrated. We finally got to go back to bed at 6. James was pretty sleepy the rest of the day. At 10 they came in to get everything ready for his transplant. They had to get it all in, in 15 minutes or less. They said usually kids get really sick when they do this but James was a rock star and it didn't even phase him. We sat and played games while they pushed the blood in. They did the whole bag in ten minutes. He stinks like sour milk, they said its from what they freeze the stem cells in. He will stink for a couple days. Other than that he is doing well. He looks really good and loves to play and be silly. He still asks to go home which breaks my heart every time but we just tell him they are making him all better. Hopefully he will have a good Christmas and not be too sick.