Stem Cell Collection- Day Two & Three

Day Two On Wednesday we went back up to LDS bright and early for more collecting. They did the routine bloodwork, then gave him his shot. His platelet count was pretty low at 59 and his white blood count was still under the 100 mark. His collection number was 3.07, putting his total to 5.67! Half way there..... Day Three Today was another early morning at LDS for more collecting, except today Josh didn't feel so well. I could tell when he got up that his stomach was bothering him. He does this weird breathing thing when he feels like throwing up that, I guess, helps it stay down. More routine bloodwork and a shot when we got there and still low counts across the board. They gave him some nausea medicine before they hooked him up to the machine. It helped calm his stomach a bit and he was able to take a little nap. The nausea medicine must have wore off while he was sleeping because he threw up when he woke up :( We had to stick around for about 20 minutes to see how much the collection depleted his platelets. It was a really long 20 minutes...all Josh wanted to do was go home. We barley made it out of the hospital before he threw up again. When we finally made it home he got into bed and didn't move....until we had to make another trip back up to the hospital for his last shot. Today his collection number was 3.12, for a total 8.79.....SO CLOSE!! Hopefully we have a good day of collecting tomorrow so we can be done with this step and move onto the next. Thanks for all the prayers for Josh! Keep them up, they seem to be working :) Loves to you all!