Thursday, February 4, 2010

Stem Cell Collection!



Brody had a huge sleep in this morning, he woke up moving his leg a little bit and was a tiny bit happier. Then it was all go, go, as they took him to a ultra sound for his hip and then we went of to collect his stem cells.
We found out that the hip, ultra sound was normal. The stem cell went well and they collected 2.4 stem cells, which they were really happy with. So we dont have to do it again tommorrow. Yeapy!!!!!
You can see from the photos the machine that collects and divides the blood & cells. But its not as easy as it looks, it can cause problems and Brody had to sit on the bed, still for over 4 hours and have his neck turned the right way. This was horrible, lucky for me, my mum came to help me keep Brody entertained. At first they were going to pull the plug but i got him to have a half hour sleep, which made it that little bit easier. We watched Tv and played with his DS, and also played with his Ben 10 men. We still had a few issues of him saying NO WAY, GO AWAWY, and hiting, but other wise they got what they wanted and i am happy with that.
Brody has till got a temp so not going home any time soon and you can see by the photo's he still has to have oxgyen. Tommorrow he will have a bone scan to see if the infection is in his bones, as they still are puzzled.