Tom woke up this morning not feeling too well and was officially diagnosed by Dr. Mom with a “stress” throat. He spent the day with his Aunt Peggy, my youngest sister who always come through for me no matter what!!
Another growth hormone to start the day and George is then hooked up. Now this machine is really cool – it was invented over 30 years ago by an IBM engineer and it has worked so well only minor modifications have been made since then – it’s an automated blood separator device that operates on a centrifugal spinny thing – OK, I’m tired. Basically, it separates George’s blood and places all the useable parts into pouches using the catheter’s input and output valves. Joanne wheeled the machine into George’s room around 8am and finished around 1:30 pm. The platelets and stem cells are then picked up by Missy, who is in charge of freezing (imagine those nick-names!).
The stem cell count came back at 2 million – exactly the goal for the day! The goal for Tuesday will be 3 million. Then there will be enough for the stem cell infusion after chemotherapy.
Some news we did learn today – for the chemotherapy and stem cell infusion, George will be staying at Boston Medical. The current dates are still January 2nd through January 5th, 2006.
Whenever I am feeling overwhelmed (hmm, all the time?), only need to pause and think of all of you keeping us in your thoughts and prayers – thank you!!
radiate harmony 