Round 2 of Chemo

This Tuesday Cris will begin the second round of chemo in preparation for his bone marrow transplant in July. He will have chemo on Tuesday, Wednesday (Nick's birthday) and Thursday. We'll be home by Thursday evening and he will get to spend the next few days at home! We go back the following week for blood work and checkups.

July is going to be very busy. The first week he will be admitted for 2-3 days for the stem cell harvesting. He gets to spend a few days at home, and then, on the 18th he will be admitted for about 45 days for the bone marrow transplant. During that time he will be in isolation, which is going to be hard for him. He won't be able to have visitors during that time and he is going to have to be confined to his room. Since so many people have asked me what he likes, we created a registry at Toys R Us under his name (please don't feel obligated to buy him anything--we only did this to make things easier because several people have been asking--seriously, we don't expect everybody to buy him things--but, if you really want to buy something, remember, I like diamonds and platinum ;-))

We told him that he is going to be in the hospital for his birthday and now he wants to celebrate his birthday every single weekend until he is admitted and again after he is sent home.  We celebrated Nick's 15th birthday yesterday and Cris was upset because we didn't sing him (Cris) Happy Birthday. We decided to compromise; on July 15th we're going to take him to see Harry Potter at the Drive-In (he won't be able to go to a regular theater) and this winter, after his immune system has had a chance to recover, we're going to take him to the Great Wolf Lodge (since he can't swim this summer).

Adina