happy drugs...

well, the pain has set in and before i left tonight tim had to call in the heavy artillary. so far his pain has been managable, but tonight the pain in his mouth/throat became very intense. they have switched all his medications over to IV and we are only eating soft foods and rinsing with salt water. this is a very common side effect of the transplant and should subside as soon as his counts start to rise.

other than that i guess everything else is about the same. he received platelets today-another common side effect-thursday he starts his neupogen (?) injections to quick-start his new immune system and hopefully within the next few days or so we will see his counts start to rise.

they say that he may be busting out of there in another week or so...he is counting the days.

ashley still is getting these fevers (i guess instead of her dad) and has a headache and cough, but the dr says it is just a viral thing...so we wait it out.

thanks for checking in...

(tim and) tired tammy