Transplant Day!!!

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is transplant day! Scott (Donor Dad) is scheduled to check into UWMC at 5:30 am for marrow harvest, and then Tyler will check in at SCCA's outpatient clinic at 2:00 pm for marrow infusion. Afterwards, we take Tyler home and hope that the marrow takes hold and goes to work making new healthy blood.

We would appreciate all prayers to be said for both Scott and Tyler, and for the blessing of wise and compassionate care from the doctors and nurses around them both.

After the transplant, we begin the waiting period. Waiting for Engraftment is a 2-3 week period punctuated by frequent blood tests. The goal of this phase is to get Tyler's immune system to stay asleep while Scott's marrow travels to Tyler's bone marrow bed and begins to make new blood cells.

As the new blood begins to pick up, Tyler's body should begin to repair itself. He's got some recurrence of the mucositis, but we hope to keep it more under control with pain meds more often. I'm also hoping that it doesn't get as bad this time, but for now he is eating and drinking more carefully and living with more pain than normal.

Transplant -1 and counting...