Nathan admitted into the hospital directly after surgery for his central lines on Wednesday, there were some complications feeding his lines in, Dr. tried the left side first, where his original lines were placed in 2010, and had no success so moving onto the right side with some complication’s along the way as well, he was able to feed the lines in successfully. Nathan had mild muscle discomfort but with the help of heat packs and a small amount of meds he has almost completely bounced back. Thursday Nathan received his first round of chemo of Bulsaulfan, to begin the bone marrow transplant process, they call these the “minus“ days, leading up to “the” day. Nathan’s received this chemo (Bulsaulfan), every 6hrs, round the clock; he would have it brought in hooked up and it would run for 2hrs, every day for 4 days. During this time he did well, he maintained himself with minimal side effect, nausea and mild fatigue. His central line dressing though is creating havoc as it did before and with this time Nathan’s system being pushed to a greater extreme this is a problem as he needs a sealed and protected site where his central lines exit his chest to prevent infection. His skin has already reacted to the adhesives and it’s creating a contact dermatitis type reaction which we are all being very cautious as as we cannot have it completely breaking down going into transplant on Thursday and the recovery afterwards, so it’s a meeting of the minds to keep it in sync.

Today is day 5 in, (-3) today, Nathan started his second chemo, Cyclophosphamide he will receive this for 2 days at 2hr infusions each along with round the clock medication that called, Mesna; it’s a rescue med to protect his organs from damage due to receiving the Cyclophosphamide chemo. This particular chemo is much stronger and will wipe Nathan out very quickly, and has. It’s been 2 hours since his chemo stopped running and he’s already felt nausea with in ½ hour and much fatigue, he is currently sleeping as I write this.

*Day:  -2

So as life would have it, my update didn’t make it out as planned and we continued into Nathan’s evening with a very sick kiddo into the night and if that wasn’t bad enough for him it triggered a migraine on top of it all, making the vomiting much worse. Today he is feeling much better, thankfully; but again he is hooked up and receiving chemo as I’m re-updating my update.

Nathan is feeling the nervousness of all this especially this second chemo and how he knows it’s going to knock him down and then of course “The transplant” along with the recovery. His spirits are good and he’s determined to kick this, and beat cancers butt and get back to life and everything he loves and enjoys.

Thank you to ALL for so many great words of encouragement and positive thoughts and the many many prayers being said for Nathan and my family… God Bless!