Day 14- POst transplant

What a day!!!

Skin Doctor come in and told us that his big red patches were from the chemo and the fine red ones were Graft vs Host Disease, but nothing to worry about.

Graft Versus Host Disease is a common complication of Transplant, every patient develops some degree of GVHD. Most of the cases are mild to moderate.
What happens is that the donors T-lymphocyte cells recognise the patients cells as foreign and try to destroy them.
There is research that GVHD can be beneficial in children with Leukaemia, as it the T- cells fight the Leukaemia cells. There is also Acute GVHD which can be life threatening.

At this stage the doctors said it is still too early to tell, and if it gets worse they can treat the GVHD. So time will tell.

Then Brody had the drug which went for 9 hours to help get rid of his poo bug. Its like another chemo drug and needed fluids before and after.
He also had a platelet transfusion and then need two bags of blood transfusion.

After half of the first bag of Blood Brody skin and rash went bright red, the worse that i have seen yet, his eyes are all blood shoot and he is very tired. He also has had a little vomit.
The doctors came in again and told me that it could be the rash flared up again, or a reaction to one of the things he had today. They will re examine him tomorrow.

At the moment he is having his other bag of blood and going off to sleep. So its been a huge day and i am ready to go to bed too. Good nite all, LOve you all xoxoxo