The morning was as usually, i ran across the hospital to wish Luke good luck and give him a kiss and cuddle. I was running back to Brody holding my tears back, when in the background they had music playing about rainbows, that just cracked me up as i knew it was Sonya telling me she was here. As Sonya told her boys that if they see or hear a rainbow that it was her, telling them she loves them.
Back at Brody and his room had to be clean and I had to give him a shower before the transplant. We got word that Luke had finished and the cells were ready.
Transplant team come and hooked up Luke's bone Marrow to the drip stand and to Brody's cords. For the first hour a Nurse stayed with us, as she needed to take 15minute observations. Then she did half hourly and then every 2 hours. Brody had no problems and no reactions. The whole process took 4 hours to run through Brody.
Luke stayed in recovery for a while until the doctors cleared him and was able to go home with Grandma and Grandpa. The Transplant Doctors said Luke could visit Brody and see his bone marrow going into Brody. It was a nice moment. I was so proud of them both. Luke is very, very saw and can hardly walk, but he is just like his brother and keeps moving on. Great job Lukey xoxox
Brody is now having a platelet transfusion as his counts are very low, his temp is going up but only at 37.8. He is very red all over, which they say is normal and he has lost all his hair now.
He also had some blood in his urine, but they are giving him fluids to help fix that, also normal, unless it gets worse then he may have kidney problems.
Brody tonight gets angry quickly and i think his tired and in some sort of pain but he says he is not, so i cant do much, he is just lying around watching movies.
The transplant team told us that Luke's marrow had alot of cells, more than they thought they would get, so this is a good thing to have for Brody's body to accept it. But it still does not change that he has had more chemo and radiation then normal, which can cause more effects and it doesn't change that the cancer still could come back within the 6 months.
We wont see any results until 2 weeks time, then we will see some cell recovery, but it will be luke's cells in Brody's not Brody's cells. Brody's cells will take longer to recover, due to he had nothing.
Therefore today was great but the worse is yet to come, its going to be a long hard battle and we are just hoping for the best.
Thank you everyone for all your thoughts and prayers. xoxox
