Day -1 Rest Day

This is supposed to be our rest day before the transplant. But the chemo seems to be catching up to Bridger’s fast pace body. He has been throwing up off and on all day. His white and red blood counts are finally dropping (this is a good thing, but makes him tired). Bridger is very sad today. It breaks my heart because I want to make it better, but he just wants to go home and we can’t. He has slept most of the day. He has retained a lot of water so they gave him some meds to help. The water retention may be causing his cough. The Dr.’s decided to get an X-ray today to make sure everything was still in check. The results were negative, no pneumonia! All kids that get a BMT have to wear a big mask with special filters on it. It looks kind of like a fighter pilot’s mask. Bridger had to ware his to get his x-ray. He fought and cried the entire way down to radiology. I assume we will not be going out much when we leave the hospital and have to wear the mask.