my soul poured out: Days of St. Jude

Well I went this past monday for a bone marrow aspirate. What fun those always are. I got there saturday night and got blood work done. Yay. I then went and hung out with Mikey one of my friends from there. He was inpatient do to his ANC being 0, he finally got out today, its up to 300, he has to stay at the Grizzley house though until its up to 500. Anyways after that i went back to the Grizzley house and went to go get on a computer, well they where all taken so i went outside to sit and listen to my Ipod. Out there i met a girl named Kristina she is 20 only 9 days younger then me. She has had cancer 6 times. She lost her left leg from right above the knee down. She had to have lung surgery the next day. I havent talked to her yet but plan on emailing her tonight to see how she is doing.

The next day i woke up extra early, went to Aclinic. Walked in and looked at my nurse Mary and go um so yea im hungry so tell them to hurry this thing up. I was NPO no food or drink after 12. I put my ipod in and sat on the doc's spinny chair and of course was spinning then i pulled it out in the door way and just sat and watched. Mary came to talk to me and i yelled on accident, cause i had the ipod in my ears. Dr. Ribero came in soon after and talked about getting everythign together for transplant, and told me that they where doing this to make sure the cancer wasnt progressing to much to fast.

Soon after we where done in Aclinic on to Procedure i went. They started an IV and put my chillax meds in there due to the fact i freak out when im put to sleep. We all talked about idol...haha my fave topic of course. When it was time to go to sleep, they let me push the anthetsia into me. Where i fell asleep talking about Chris Sligh. I woke up of course talking about Elliott, they are used to that back there. They gave me pain meds when i woke up so i was completley doped up good.

I went and hung out by radiation clinic with Mikey and Kody. Kody is almost done with chemo and radiation and then he gets to go back home to Georgia for a little bit. Then i got to go eat thank goodness. After that i spoke with my transplant cordinator, she was really sweet and she gave me the date of inpatient Sept 19 so that means transplant should take place Sept 29.

I went and hung out with Mikey all day and then back to the grizzley house for supper. The Memphis Panthers Arena football team where there. They where really cool to hang out with. It was there that i met a girl named Lucy, who had fought and beat CML. She had a transplant and was doing amazing. She was a great artist and drew me a few things to put up in my room. She 10 at the time of transplant and is now 13 and doing great. Please pray that she stays healthy.

Well thats all that happened i have my scedule for next monday ill give to yall and then ill keep you update with what all is to come.

August 20
9:00 A/T General (where they take vital signs, blood, height and weight.)
10:00 Chest X-Ray (to check for pneomia sorry cant spell)
10:15 Visit with a line nurse about getting my double hickman line put in.
10:45 XR Panorex (X-ray of my teeth)
11:00 Pre Eval Conference with B Clinic(BMT clinic)
11:30 Visit with my BMT nurse
1:00 Audiology Evaluation (Ear doctor)
2:30 Echo/EKG (check my heart)

thats all they have sceduled for that day, ill update later if there is more.