U of C Day 8 - Transplant Tomorrow

It's the night before the transplant and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about it. It's scheduled for 10am tomorrow and will take a couple hours. It's just going to happen here in Leo's hospital room, similar to a blood or platelet transfusion. First they will transfuse Leo's mom stem cells and then the cord blood. A nurse needs to be present the entire time to monitor the transfusion and make sure he doesn't have any bad reactions. Then we wait to see how his body accepts them. I will let you all know how it goes of course. Several have asked if they could visit this weekend. I will let you know after I see how things go tomorrow if it's a good idea or not. At this point, Leo's immune system is totally shot. They knocked it out completely in hopes of building it up again via the transplant. So the more exposure he has to germs, the greater the chance he could catch something. I will let you all know tomorrow afternoon/evening.

My attempts to download Skype and getting it to work were thwarted. Seems as though it cannot be downloaded onto either of our laptops. It may be the connection here in the hospital or it may be our computers. Either way, it didn't work. We had our IT support team (aka Paul) here this evening and he couldn't get it to work. For now, the best we can do is the video messaging service via MSN messenger. If you are on MSN, you can add me and we can attempt a video call. But the connection is goofy here, so it might not work. My MSN messenger address is brivera1017@msn.com . It's worth a shot. Leo was able to see Alaina and Claudine quickly this evening. Kadence was already sleeping. Hopefully we'll figure out the bugs soon.

Leo's platelets are doing well. He was at 22,000 for his platelet level. I keep attributing it to my platelets. They were donated with love, you know. :)

I will post tomorrow as things develop. Good night.