If you didn't know from reading this post, Adam was a match for a 61 year old who has leukemia! He was going through the process of taking Neupogen shots to prepare his blood for PBSC donation. Last Wednesday night, we all headed up to St. Louis for Adam to go through the PBSC process of donating his stem cells. We stayed in a hotel the night before because Adam had to be there by 6:30am to get started. The nurses gave him his Day 5 of Neupogen and drew some blood. Then they hooked Adam up to the apheresis machine so it could filter his blood to collect just the stem cells needed for the patient. Here is a picture of Adam just getting started on the machine.
He had to sit in that chair in that same position for 7 hours. He watched two movies and played games on his phone. Mommy and Wade hung out at the hotel and Union Station so we wouldn't be in the way at the hospital. When we returned to the hospital around 2:30pm, Adam was finishing up and they bandaged his arms where the needles were. Wade missed his daddy and had to check out what they did to him!
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| What did they do to you, Daddy? |
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| I'm so proud of my Daddy! |
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