Going home

We made it back to Las Vegas on Saturday. It was so nice to sleep in my own bed. Before I could leave they transfused some platelets and red blood into me. When we got to the airport we were about 2 hours early. By the time that I walked to the gate had a hamburger, it was time to board the airplane. It was a pretty fast trip to Vegas we got in about 15 mins ahead schedule, only to find an airplane in our gate so we had to wait for it.

I feel great, and I still sleep alot. My legs have gotten very weak and I have a hard time walking around. This should fix itself in a couple of weeks. I still have the fungus in my lungs but they say it will take a few months for this to go away. I still have no graft vs. host diesease, I hope that I get a little bit but not to much it can be very nasty.

I will try and keep this blog up to date, I see my doctor here in Vegas this Wednesday, look for an update then.


Take care

INFUSION DAY

Today was the big day and am I glad it is over. Ty went in at 9:00 am and donated his t3 cells. Thanks Ty. I went in at 2:00 pm to get the infusion. Good job Casey. It was alot like my Bone Marrow Transplant, only shorter. It took only 3o mins. to do the infusion, and it took a hour and a half for the benadryl to wear off. There were no complications and as my Doctor put it "I look better in person than on paper". They are looking for some sort of Graft Vs. Host reaction, this will take 4-6 weeks to happen. Then they treat me with some sort of drugs that will contain the Graft Vs. Host. Looks like we will be going back to Las Vegas this Saturday.

We will see what takes place over the next few weeks.

Casey

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Quick update. On Monday I will get an infusion of Ty's blood cells. Apparently the harvest Ty's cells in the morning and put them into me that afternoon. It should be pretty straight forward. They say that we will be able to go home by Saturday, one that I do know is that can change pretty fast. I really hope it is Friday but we will have to wait and see what happens.