Transplant Day - February 6th- Day 0

The day we have been waiting for!
The First day of our new life. A day where we have been given a chance that Ryan can beat this, now it is up to Ryan body to do what it needs to do. And we will fight beside him all the way..

Ally arrived at 7 am and was pre - admitted and put in to the cutiest white hospital gowns...(pants, shirt and booties). She would not go to anyone else but her mommy....I guess that is what happens when you have not seen one of your children for 5 days....it breaks my heart....
So off went to the waiting room when they call you for surgery....I was worried that she would not go with the nurse in to the OR...they asked me if I was ok with her crying if she did...what could I say....so I said I guess so, this has to be done....so off she went and to my surprise she went quietly...(looking a bit scared but she did not cry) unless that happened once she was in the OR...we waited for what seemed like hours but was about an hour and a half and the DR. came out to tell me she was breathing on her own and all was good....They took 250 cc of her bone marrow to give to Ryan. The reason that amout is because Ally is so small, they could not take any more with out putting her at risk..She then went to recovery where she was out of sorts to say the least...she was very upset and in alot of pain ( Morphine was given x2 as her heart rate was up from the pain...) once she was calm I left her with Dave and went to clean Ryan old room to get all his things ready for the new isolation room. I also wanted to check in on Ryan to make sure he was doing ok...So needless to say this was a day of running from floor to floor..
With the help of Tanya and my parents we were able to go from Ryan to Ally with out worring about leaving them alone...I spent the afternoon upstair with Ryan wipping down his toys to bring into his new room and watching Ally bone marrow fuse into Ryan...He took the transplant great....no pre meds as Ally was such a good match and same blood time...so no real risk of any reaction....it toook 4 hours to run her bone marrow into Ryan but it was fine..ALL WENT WELL.
At about 6 pm I packed my stuff and said by to Dave and Ryan and went to see Ally just ot find out she could not leave as she had not peed all day, another concern.....
So we have to wait....she was in so much pain 9just crying and trying to get confortable.( oh how I wish I could have made it better) I held her and held her and finally she peed at about 7:15 so we were given the ok to leave....they administered so codine for the pain.

Ryan had his first bout of vomitting the night before...It was out of the blue, no warning..
It lasted about a minute and he said I feel better now...they say this can happen, they just feel sick and then they feel better... Ryan said mommy do you like the smell of my vomitt...I said now way, and then I asked him the same thing...he looked at me and said "NO"!!!!!!
I told him he was such a brave boy and his response to me was "yes I am" and off he went to sleep...the rest of the night was great.

Counts today :

WBC 1.0
RBC 84
PLT - 24

So dropping steadly we should see no whites tomorrow or about .1 or .2.....

To my sweet Alexandria,
You do no understand what you have given to your brother, but you have him the chance of life...As you get older we will explain this to you so you understand what a wonderful thing you have done. Without you " a perfect match and same blood type, ryan would not have the same chance to fight this disease.
You are truly Mommy and Daddy's angel, and I thank you so very much for being able to give him this hope. Hope for a life where he can do and be whatever he wants to be.
I have told your brother that you have given him your blood and he understands that your blood is in side of him and he said Mommy I love Ally and I am getting her good blood so I can get better and we can go home...

Sorry everyone for not posting this yesterday , I am sure you were all wondering.but by the time I got home I had no energy to do anything...

Thanks for all the prayers and please keep praying as this is the first step to a long road ahead. We now need Ryan body to except Ally's bone marrow and en graft...that ususally take about 2-3 weeks... and the we need him to stay in remission forever.........Ryan this is my hope and prayer for you, my sweet little boy....

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