Team in Training - Leukemia & Limphoma Society

There are a bunch of people who are running a marathon for cancer, and they are called the Team in Training. My mom got me to be an honorary member. It was actually her friend Amy who gave us the trampoline last year who runs and is part of this society that got us to sign up. Anyway, Talin, Mark and Grant came by yesterday to cheer me up and brought me a signed Mariner Baseball. Amy, Kim and Rick came to our house the past 2 weekends and cleaned and made us dinners. That was very helpful for my parents, since they are so preoccupied with me being here in the hopsital. All the *LLS team has been reallynice to us. If you have time, go check them out. They are running in Anchorage or San diego sometime in June. I can't wait to get out of here and go see them train. I iknow they are having a breakfast at gaswrorks park this weekend. They are raising money for cancer research. We n eed a cure.

Today is my grafting birthday

today my WBC is over 1500. when they are over 500 for two days it means I am engrafting. I think that means the bone marrow is working. I hope it does. *I'm really looking forward to fresh air again. I'm back in isolation because *i had a ru nny noise. If nothing "grows" I will be out of isolation on Sat. I dont' like isolation. I can't walk around, which is the only thing there is to do here.
The boredom is getting to me.

White Blood Cells Have ARRIVED!!!

On Monday (3 days ago) I got WBC of 68, Tues was 209 and today it's over 600!! The nurses said it could go up and down, but so far it's only up!! I'm off some of the pain medications finally, and looking forward to feeling none. The sores are getting better. I hope they go away fast I'm tired of pain.
Most patients get some sort of Graft vs. Host Desese. So far I have a bunch of little red spots, but they are giving me steroids for that. I hope thats not the bad kind. I'll have to ask.
I'm really tired, so I sleep a lot. It seems like I've played every game, and watched every dvd. It's very boring here.

Bald is Beautiful

My hair fell out a few days ago. My mom misses my hair. I've had the worst pain I've ever had the past 2 weeks, but it's finally getting a little bit better. The dr's told my mom today that my white blood cells should be kicking in in about 4-5 days. Hopefully they aren't exagerating because I can hardly wait. Once they kick in the sores in my mouth will go away, and so will the pian. I've been sleeping alot the last few days. It's hard to sleep in the hospital because the nurses always want to do something, like take my blood pressure or my temperature, or the pumps beep at me. It's anoying.
I'm looking forward to seeing Nick tomorrow. He's coming to visit. I haven't really seen too many people lately. I think I'm up to visitors now so feel free to come see me. I'm out of isolation too, so I can walk around the ward.

Waiting, waiting and more waiting. Pain, pain and more pain.

The transplant went ok. The 4 bags of marrow arrived in a little cooler. It took 9 hours to infuse through the line. It is NOT a surgery. It was a surgery for the donor. They took out the 4 bags of cells from his hip bone. Now they are in me floating around in my blood, eventually the receptors in my bones will call the new cells and grow my own new ones. My blood type will change to be the same as the donor O positive.

I've already got a whole lot of mouth sores, that hurt like hell. I've been in a lot of pain. Sometimes its really bad and I push a button for more pain mediccation. It helps but not that much.

Jeanine came down to see me from Chilliwack, BC. She's kinda like my second mom, but better. She never makes me clean and she can fix my network problems. We have an IT person coming tomorrow to hopefully get my xbox LIVE work.

Gotta go get vitals

Today is the day - Bone Marrow Transplant Day

It's finally here. The day we've been waiting for. I don't know whether I should be scared, or relieved, or what. I've heard the actual transplant is no big deal. It's like getting a blood trnasfusion. I think it's afertwards that won't be so fun. We don't know what side affects I will get. I hope they aren't too bad. I'm already getting mucisitis, which is sores in the mouth. I got those really bad when I had radiation in June/July 2006. *i hope they aren't as bad as that this time.
Thanks everyone for the cards and coming to visit yesterday. *i do like visitors. My mom is bringing me vanilla cake with rasberry filling today. *I hope I can eat it. I'm not eating much anymore, since I feel sick most of the time. Sleeping a lot too. It gets very boring here, so *i play videos alot.
Have a Happy Day!

I'm back in the Hospital - 1/2 done with radiation

well....i'm back. I had to check in to the hospital right afer my first radiation on Thurs. I'm trying to get xbox live to work, but I need a DNS Server number, and I dont' what it is. Hopefully Jeanine will be able to help me, or maybe I can get and IT person from Children's to come help me. I need two more sculls for Halo 3. I got it hooked up to the network, but now I need a DNS server, and I wish i knew whatg that was.
I had radiation this morning, at least this time I didn't get sick. I got pretty sick last night. I have to go over to the UW for radiation, so my mom gave me a ride today. I have to go back at 4pm for another round.
Nick Fredette is coming down today to play some games. Lisa Hill is bringing me my favorite pie, strawberry-rubarb. Jeanine is coming from Canada to spend the night tonight. My uncle Ted will be here soon. I like them to stay more than my mom or dad. They get boring sometimes. Too many questions.
Gotta go, my pie is here!!