On the THIRD day of stem cell harvest

We are just about to complete the third day of harvesting stem-cells. Luke's bone marrow was just not ready to give us enough cells so the doctors decided to keep us overnight to try again on Friday. They said sometimes a patients bone marrow just doesn't release as many cells as others, but they do have other options, including continuing aphresis or going in and aspirating the cells out of the bone marrow. Well, Friday's treatment produced a ton more stem-cells but it still was not quite as much as they wanted so we decided to try one more time. Regardless of the the results we will go home confident we have plenty of those precious little stem-cells. Luke is doing fine...he will be really glad to get home to his siblings and his own bed and so will Dad and Mom. The femoral line they put in his groin will soon come out and we will be on our way home..Yippee.. By the way, Luke was once again a star patient and the placement of the line went beautifully.