I have a new Cousin - his name is Cameron

On December 28th at about 8am, my cousin Cameron entered the world at 8 pounds 8 ounzes. His lucky number will be 8 I guess. My mom went to see him at the hospital, here is a picture. Congradulations to my Uncle Erik and Aunt Becky. I can't wait to meet him.

Still Waiting for White Blood Cells

The wait seems forever. I had my 14th Birthday here on Dec 26th. My mom suprized me with a birthday party. She had to keep it fairly small, but I was suprized. I had vanilla cake with rasberry filing, whic h was good, then we had pizza. I got lots of presents. Again! It' s really not bad having a birthday right after Christmas, because I have 2 days of presents! My mom gave me 14 pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, fifty cents, dollor coins, dollor bills, 5 dollor bills and 10 dollor bills. As you can see I was quite happy about that present! We're gonna load that money on a visa card so I can go shopping from my computer here at the hospital.

I had a bone marrow biopsy on the 27th, so now my bottom hurts. They extract bone marrow out of the bone, and they took a little piece of my bone to look at. Nothing new, not a lot of activity in there. The doctors did say that was fairly normal since I had two back to back chemo's. I've had no white cells since 11/30. I hope this doesn't stop my transplant. I know I have to have a certain amount of cells before they can do it. I guess we wait and see.

If you feel like it, come for a visit.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Well, al in al I had a good day. Santa visited me and gave me presents! My nurses were all super nice today and my mom and dad gave me lots of stuff. Cole came down to open presents together. We have to open some presents at the same time because we often get the same things. I saw the Adams famly yesterday and played Apples to Apples. Cousin Alicia won! My uncles & grandma dama came to see me tonight. Mom brought down dinner, but I really liked the scaloped potatoes from my grandma dama. I did get a whole strawberry rubarb pie from granpa Jack the other day. Food is starting to taste better.
I still don't have any white blood cells yet. What's up with that? I hope everything is going to still work out for me and I can get out of here sometime soon. I'm not really looking forward to spending my birthday here tomorrow, but I guess I got to.

No White Blood Cells Yet

Three days to go until Christmas, then my birthday, and I don't think I'm gonna get out of here. It seems like I should have some sign of white blood cells by now, but, noooooooooooo, not yet. I've been getting some visitors, which is nice. I do like visitors. My friends came down today. And my mom made a Christmas tree on my wall. Here's a picture. I hope Santa remembers where I'm at! I'm sure "she" will!!

My Uncle Ted spent the night last night, and Jeanine is here tonight. I've been making some Christmas presents. Hope everyone has a happy holiday. Thanks to all!

10 Days until Christmas

I heard one of the nurses call my confinement ANC Jail. That's what it feels like. I'm in Jail. I still have zero white blood cells. Any day now they should start coming back, then I'll get out of jail.
Some of my neighborhood friends came to visit me yesterday. They cheered me up some. It's hard to stay cheery when there is no end in sight yet. We had pizza and played some games. Watched some funny videos on UTube.
My mom & dad are trying to decorate the house for Christmas this weekend. Hopefully I'll be home to see it soon. I do love the Christmas lights. It's my dad's turn to pick out the tree, so he's doing that today. My mom's friends are coming over tomorrow to help decorate. I hope Max stays out of the stuff and doesn't chew up everything! I can't wait to see the puppy dog when I get home.

Completely BORED out of my mind!!!!!!

Hi All.
The chemo part is over.....now we wait. I did end up in ICU for about 24hours last weekend, because my blood pressure dropped so low. I hate ICU. They don't even let you get up to pee! I was never so happy to see my room on the 3rd floor. Then, we had to move rooms, which was a pain. We are back in the room we were in last time. It's kinda cramped, but I still have my computer & xbox, so I'm good. I'm feeling ok, but I don't seem to have much energy. I've been sleeping a lot lately.
I made some christmas presents with Jeanine today, and now I'm off to help the nurses paint decorations on the windows.
Thanks Austin, for the candy tree. My nurses like it too!!