I wish I could say our first night and day after the transplant was great but I can't. The other night Jack suffered from dehydration and saturday night Jack suffered from overhydration. Because the doctors didn't want to get behind the eight ball with Jack and risk him dehydrating again, they upped his fluids. Around 8:00pm Jack started to have very labored breathing. He held off a couple of hours but by midnight he really needed the assistance of oxygen. Because of all the extra fluid his body was unable to expell it all out so his lungs are surrounded and gave him shortness of breath. Thankfully it's not blocking any pathways of the lungs. It was another evening of many nurses and doctors doing everything they can to get him comfortable. Respitory specialists came with nasal cannulas and then had to switch him to a mask. I had to call Roy to come back to the hospital at 3:30am because there was another threat of going to the PICU. The doctors started him on some major diuretics to help him expell the fluid as well as give him platelets. It was a very long night and a long next day as well. Jack is still on oxygen but his breathing is definitely not as labored as it was and will remain on oxygen til he obviously doesn't need it. We found out that typically what happens in transplant (before, during and after) the body becomes "leaky" and the person retains some fluid however in Jack's case they had given him the fluid to keep him hydrated so on top of what his body is doing "naturally" because of the chemo and the extra fluid he is retaining he is having issues with not being able to get it all out. His disposition is fine and he is still asking for his food trays which is great for Jack. Through all of this Roy and I have remained calm and also try to keep up our sense of humor. We keep praying and knocking on a lot of wood. We knew going into this that there would be risks and possible complications. So we hit a bump in the road and Jack will get through this as he always does. We also know that the worst may be yet to come. We just keep faith.