Day -5

Nico started the second part of his procedure today. He was admitted to room 1689 of the Prentice Woman's Hospital, where Dr.Burt treats his patients. We found out that there are currently 11 patients treated for autoimmune diseases. This is his room.

And this are the views from his windows:

Today was the first day of chemo therapy: pretreatment with Mesna, to protect his bladder, Lasix to make him pee, then Cytoxan and rATG ( drugs to wipe out his immune system). Also anti nausea meds and steroids. There were a few more drugs involved which I can't remember. 
He will have 4 days of Cytoxan/rATG infusions and 1 day of rATG only. Days are counted backwards from now on: -5, -4, -3, -2, -1. On day 0 he will get the stem cells  from our last trip back. This will be his new Stem Cell Birthday. Now we will count days as +1, +2, +3 etc. and he will hopefully be ready for discharge around day +9.

Here you can see him with all his goody bags.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 He made it though day -5 ok and we are off to day -4.