So on Thursday we went in and more platelets were needed. Cody is feeling better, thank goodness and his counts are coming in nicely. He amazes me that way! He was published in the American Medical Neurology Journal. When he had that brain issue back in 2009 a month after the transplant, I was video taped and interviewed. It was very rare what happened to his brain. If I can scan it (left it at work) I will see if I can put it on here. There was a lot of medical stuff in it, and I surprised myself by understanding most of it. He went through so much.
Looking forward to a quiet weekend. There is a hot sauce expo that he wants to go to this weekend so we will be going.
Please add Sam to your prayers. He is a young man (26) that traveled to Sloan from Missouri….alone. He stays at the Ronald house and is going through some tough times right now. It breaks my heart to think he is doing this alone. Thank you.
Tyler would have loved a hot sauce convention! I hope you guys had a fantastic time burning your tongues and outdoing/daring one another! I am glad that Cody is feeling better; you are both ever present in our thoughts. Hot sauce and chemo, could that be a new country western song title?
ReplyDeleteI will think of Sam; it's so hard to be sick and not have your family by your side. I know that the families at Ronald McDonald House will help and nurture him as much as they can.
Love to you both,
Diane
Hi Diane..I remember when we came to your house and you gave Cody some salsa of some kind. It was fun! I was not nearly as daring as Cody was. It would have been fun if we all could have gone. We think of Tyler often. Cody talks about that first surgery when the mediport was placed and he got the chemo in his spine and how he and Tyler ate tacos! We should have gotten a picture of that!
ReplyDeleteThanks for thinking of Sam. He is such a great guy. I am sure he is getting a lot of support but I know there are times when he needs someone and no one is there.
Thanks, Diane…xoxoxoxox
Mary