Stem Cells at 2pm today *** Update

Click here to watch/listen to the blessing of the stem cells

3PM - All Done! They monitored Scott's vital signs through the whole thing. Pretty much uneventful, thankfully. Here is video of the blessing of the cells, it is more audio than anything because I just threw the camera on the table, but you get the idea. Some idle chit chat before hand, and then the blessing.....Which starts out "This is the day" which again, is one of the songs we sang at our wedding, that I never liked the melody all that much, but I must say it is growing on me. I cried like a baby (or Carol), as usual.


My husband

Erc,Kristen, Ron and Scott

Stem cells on the right..kind of looked like cream of tomato soup.

Thank you everyone for your prayers. This is Scott's new Birthday, so we will be having cake tonight. God Bless Donor Dan and all those leukemia patients that went before Scott and let the doctors try this on them.

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The waiting continues, should see his counts dropping, with him bottoming out next week. After about 14 days his counts will start to rise. Then when they are high enough we will be discharged and able to stay in accomodations nearby.

Please say a prayer at 2pm that all goes as planned and we live happily ever after. Scott will post more later.

Betty.

Just saw the doctors.  The time is still set, the cells arrived last night, they have to be processed and counted.  The count is very important according to the doctor, I told them I didn't want to know, they could tell Betty.  It's all in God's hands anyway.  I have a cough that I came in with and it's getting worse so I'm off for a CT scan.  I'm told it's not the pneumonia I had, but they can determine if it's an infection or allergy by the scan and a lab test.  I don't want another illness on top of the chemo effects that are coming.  I don't want to be in a hospital and look how that's working for me.

God Bless,
Scott