Day +8 & Day +9 - April 2 & 3, 2006

Well the word is out and the faithful readers want an update. 1st I want to say Thank You to all of you for caring about Jack. I also want to say Thank You to everyone who has left comments on the blog or written in the guestbook. All your words mean alot. We tell Jack who's checking on him and who's leaving notes. One note caught his fancy today and that came Firefighter Gene he told Jack he has firetruck visit waitng for him. Well that kinda set him off in a good way. He loves his firetrucks.
Anyway that last 2 days have really been uneventful. Nothing new to report, Jack is having some issues with mucocitis aka mouth sores. They have yet to rear their ugly heads but it causing Jack to vomit very small amounts of mucus. He does not seem to be in any pain, and his spirits are great. His medications seem to help him vomit also.
Charlotte came back on Sunday and brought Christina and Oma, shortly after they arrived Jack's Candi la la & Zeus came to see him. He was thrilled to see Candi & Zeus, they brought him some Legos and some other things. He was loving life. He and Zeus built a ship with the Legos and were clowning View image
around. Candi and Charlotte then showed their artistic side by decorating the windows in Jack's room. With some help from Mussy. This is the view from across Jack's room. Christina went with Rochelle from child life and was doing crafts making flowers.
Monday turned out to be really uneventful. Jack got some platelets and hung with Mom. Jack hasn't been eating the last couple of days but he still needs to get his food tray. He has to see it. He also got a new movie "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" he had to watch that all day. He loves it.
It will probably be another 5 -7 days or longer until we get to engraftment. Engraftment - is when the bone marrow infused during the transplant "takes" or is accepted by the patient, and begins producing blood cells. Please keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer.