Ouch...shots

We received a box in the mail today, boxes in the mail are usually something to get excited about, but not this time. Inside the box was ice cold syringes...needles, filled with a medication called Nupogeon or also called G-CSF. It will help encourage the release of Luke's stem-cells for collection on Tuesday. He will have one shot every evening, given by Mom and Dad. The stem-cells will be harvested at the University of San Francisco Children's Hospital. It works a lot like Dialysis. His blood will be circulated through a machine that collects his stem-cells, or parent-cells and then returned to his body over the course of a few hours. Unfortunately they will not be able to utilize his broviac for this procedure because of the blood volume passing through the tubes is too great, so Luke will have to have a larger line put in his groin area prior to the procedure. Please pray for strength for Luke this week, he's in for a lot of pokes, poor baby.