IV Stem Cell Treatment
October 9th, 2008
Good morning everyone,
It’s 6:40 am on Thurs. here. Brandon is sleeping in today, finally. He didn’t have a very good day with his OT yesterday. They ended up doing Accu-pressure instead. He got too upset about the needles. Hopefully today will go better. Anyway, we had a lot of trouble getting in the IV, it took about 6 tries as it wasn’t a needle they used but a very small tube. He was angry about more needles and wouldn’t lay very still so it kept coming out. It was so hard on him, but we finally got it in and the Stem Cell treatment went great. We were allowed to go in with him and Grandma Tina was allowed to hold him on her lap. I think it also helped that baby Jakob (9 mo. old) was in there with him and he was sleeping right thru it. Brandon was thinking that they had to put another needle in him and we were explaining to him that it was just being put in the tube that was already there. He did real well afterwards, no side effects. We have talked to people that said their children had gotten hyper afterwards but nothing like that happened. So afterwards we took him to a little store here in the hospital and let him pick out some ice cream. We’ve been going for walks and to the market since we’ve been here and we were told about a little park just a few blocks away that we might try to go to today. It looks like it might rain today so we’ll have to see.
Talk to you soon,
Sharon
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1. Connie Johnson | October 9th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Hi Sharon and Brandon,
Really glad to hear everything is going well and hope it continues to go well. We are all praying for it. Sounds like Brandon is doing well with. Can’t blame him for not liking the needles, most kids are scared of them. Hope you are all able to see some of the sites in between all the treatments China is supposed to be a beautiful place. Take care and good luck, I’ll be reading your comments on Brandon’s progress.
Connie, Janesville
2. Shelby | October 9th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Awe sounds like your day was exhausting! But also sounds like everything went well which is great!! Hopefully Brandon will do better today!! Good luck! Hang in there we are always here thinking about you guys!! (JCC)
3. greatgrandma@grandpa | October 11th, 2008 at 2:49 am
That is such good news to hear that he walked around his bed! It is so exciting,it gives us goosebumps! Keep up the good work Brandon and we can’t wait to see you play ball with al of us. Kudos to the grandma’s. You guys are doing an amazing job with all thats going on. Love to all. You go Brandon!!!!!
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