Today was a significant one as the stems cells were taken out of liquid Nitrogen storage and defrosted in G's room and immediately infused through his hickman line. They are on their way to his bone marrow to grow a whole new immune system. We are doing lots of visualisation techniques to encourage them to differentiate into T-cells and B-cells and neutrophils and to grow as quickly as possible to help protect him from infections.
G is doing really well and looked very well today when I went in to celebrate Day 0 with him. He is still feeling sick and very tired but is in remarkably good shape. The doctors are keeping a close eye on him but are happy to hold off the IV feeding as long as he can eat and drink enough himself.
We had a good chat today and I told G about my day at work as I had had a difficult meeting about the business and felt a little flat. I was delighted to see G open both eyes and fix me with that, "mulligan business look" and he immediately sat up in the bed and started to dictate a response "right this is what we are going to do......" and was quite back to his old self.
Lets hope that the stem cells can get in there and regrow his immune system as quickly as possible before he has to cope with any infections. I am bringing in some Tai Chi books for him tommorrow and I think now is really the time to focus on positive thoughts and visualisation and all the support and complementary therapies as hopefully the cancer is all gone now and he is beginning the road to recovery, the stem cells being the front line in that process. It has also made me appreciate and value again the contribution of research scientists and immunologists that have made this treatment a possibility.
Thank you all so much for the texts and E.mails, letters etc. G really appreciates them. I'm glad he has a room with a view but I know it is tough for him to be in isolation for these weeks, so keep the messages coming.
I'm off to get the kids tucked up in bed and looking forward to the Easter holiday weekend.
Have a good one.
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