Day -9

I am going to start labeling the days as they do here in the hospital. Today we are at -9. You count down to transplant day which is day 0 then start counting plus days. It still feels a little unreal. She started the day at 8 am with the first dose of Busulfan (chemo). They took her blood pressure, listened to her heart, checked her O2 levels and took her temp and she slept through the whole thing. Funny she didn't sleep mich last night when it was just the two of us and it was quiet but here we were with docs and nurses and machines beeping and she slept right through it. Silly girl. Last night she was loaded up with a lot of meds to prevent seziures and so we didn't have a problem with that. So far so good. The Busulfan runs for 2 hours and then there is a 4 hour break then its on for 2 again (you get the idea) and that while happen for the next 4 days. So far no reactions, no drop in energy, no throwing up but its just day one. They say the first week is pretty anti-climatic and so far it has been. She is being entertained by quite a few of her most favorite people so she doesn't seem too bored yet. They say that her energy will be pretty low after the transplant but so far everytime they say she'll be tired she's been a wild child. We'll see.

I am excited to start getting pictures for the walls. Send them as hard copies not to my e-mail, then we can hang them up. If its e-mail we have no way of printing it here so Livi won't get to see it. There will also be a prize for the first person who sends us a picture. So far no mail but we are really looking forward to getting some. I will set up the program so I can upload pictures starting tomorrow so after tomorrow I will post a photo each day. Thanks for you prayers. I'll only write more tonight if there is something going on...hopefully you won't hear from me again tonight.