HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMON

Today Simon turns 6 months old. We can't believe it. He has been in the hospital for a month and will be there another month or so and then hopefully come home to finish recovering from his transplant. Today the biggest thing has been Simons blood pressure. It has continued to be high but they can't feel his pulse in his groin area and they are getting two different readings on his arm and leg so they ordered a test to look for blood from from the aeorta that runs from the kidneys to the heart. They think it will be ok but also want to make sure he doesn't have blockage. It is day 6 of his chemo and he starts two different chemo infusions tomorrow. We are told that this second type will be stronger and cause him to have more side affects so that is scary. Dave is at the hospital and I brought the girls there today so Marriana could get a little line which ended up going into her stomach so we don't have to poke her the next 4 days with the GCFS stimulator shots but just inject it into this port. She did ok, she is a brave little girl. I pray the medicine doesn't give her any side affects. She will be going in at 6:30 am on Wednesday to have the cells extracted. They said we should plan to be there until about 5 or 6 pm and hopefully they will get enough cells to give to Simon on Thursday. Please continue to pray for him and Marriana and for strengh for all of us.

A Special thank you to Andres Trevino (Dad of Andy who has NEMO and was successfully transplanted in October 2004) for this Awesome Web page.