RWJ. Day7. Stemcell Reinfusion Day 0

Sarah woke today not feeling well after her night of IV nutrition; so meds for headache, meds for nausea, and back to sleep until 9:30am. At 10am the Stem cell premeds were started, at 10:45 a blood bank doctor, a lab technician, and Sarah's nurse came in with a very large canister containing liquid nitrogen and Sarah's stem cells, and another cart with a warming bath on it. The cells were defrosted right in the room and then the bag was hung! Sarah had a lot of cells collected, which is great, it took about 1 hour for the 2 bags to run through Sarah's IV/port; other than increasing the nausea and one bout of vomiting, the Reinfusion was uneventful. Hooray, hooray, hooray, another milestone in Sarah's road to recovery. After the infusion, Sarah slept a lot, Zen and I went for a walk, ate lunch, and still Sarah slept. Greg arrived with some beautiful artwork from the Moxham cousins, and entertained us for awhile; after the boys left Sarah was sad that they got to go home and she didn't; soon honey, soon. On the Reinfusion timeline we are at day 0, by day 10 Sarah's white blood count should be back up to a level that will be safe for her to go home; but we will have to wait and take it day by day. I still have trouble believing all that has transpired in the last few months; Sarah has been through so much in such a short amount of time, I keep telling her to keep her eyes on the finish line, we are almost there! At 19 it is hard to keep missing out on things, but thanks to all of the wonderful doctors and nurses at Overlook and here at RWJ, Sarah has a whole new life ahead of her. Hang in there baby girl, we love you! Maria