This is THE day for Transplant (photo)

He was premedicated with Benadryl and hydrocortisone and Adiven to prevent and bad reactions. Well a man came in the room with a box of frozen TV dinners, (haha). Ok back to serious stuff he came in with a cooler with some liquid nitrogen (The dry ice that is very cold) and a bag of Stefan's stem cells inside the cooler.



He placed Stefan's stem cells in a tub of warm water, to get them close to but not at body temperature, to defrost partially. Then the nurse and stem cell co-ordinator nurse came in and stayed the whole time of admitting the stem cells into Stefan. This whole process took 45 minute. They started at 3:38 pm and it was done by 4:16 pm. There were 6.45 million stem cells in this bag. This was the first bag that was harvested in December. The second bag they kept ON ICE till if and when necessary to do again.



They kept asking if he had any itching, or burning or shortness of breath or a cough that was tickling his throat. He had none of these. He is laying flat on his bed and no special prepartions were done for this. Stefan is very sleepy now and seems to be dozing off as I type this. The nurse is finishing up and flushing out the lines out of his stem cells. If he is to get sick to his stomach it will be during the next few hours. This will mainly be a reaction to the preservative that the stem cells were in, it smelled like creamed corn was being flushed into Stefan.

I will try to keep you posted as to the condition he is in and if he has any reactions.




I thank each and every one of you for keeping us in your prayers and all the positive vibes we have received.
His treatment of Leukemia and the recovery from this is almost at the end of the road.