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| John with his T Rex balloon from Ian and Beth |
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On Monday June 13th John was finally released after 2 weeks back in Brigham and Womens Hospital with many many infections.
Once one cleared, another came.
It felt like it never ended.
While he was admitted the doctors performed the stem cell boost, taking cell from Ian. Even before the boost was given John's counts began to rise and even though they are still low this is a good sign that John is finally on the way up. He has had no adverse reaction to the new cells yet but it is early days.
The next month will be crucial.
Ian, John's brother, needed to give 5 million stem cells and he gave 17 million! The doctors described this as a "super human amount".
John is still on IV antibiotics that Amanda has learn to administer as well as care for his pic line.
John's platelets have been low for months which means even simple blood draws result in bruises like the one in the picture opposite on John's arms.
He is healing.
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