Day +2, morning

The night was OK, though hectic.  For the first couple of hours a kink in one of the tubes kept causing alarms (nothing actually serious).  Around 1 AM our awesome nurse checked over all the lines and fixed the problem.  The festivities were then dominated by the irritated stomach lining, i.e. a diaper change pretty much hourly.  This, and subsequent bottom care, will be the focus of the next few days.  The neutrophils (primary bacteria-fighting cells) are low, but not low enough yet to require transfusion.  Likely tomorrow.  Today, besides the usual meds, Zevi is receiving platelets.

Other than that everything is going very well.  The cell dose Zevi received has been large.  As docs put is, "for where he is in the transplant process, he is feeling very well."  We will gratefully take any day when Zevi feels OK, poop or no poop.

"Hi, papa!" 8/15/14

Two nights ago I was putting Benjamin to bed and reading a book of his choice.  In an interesting milestone Benjamin choice "catausi and mousy" - translation from English, I believe.  It is a rather trivial story of cat wants to trick and eat mouse, mouse says "I see your mean eyes and mean mean teeth" and runs away.  The boys used to love it.  This time, Benjamin did not find the book amusing at all - this time he understood the words.  Ah, innocence lost.