Team Stell

Conner is doing much much better than he was a couple days ago. I don’t know if I put this in the last update but his heart was beating 200 times a minute and he was breathing 100 times a minute. That is not good at all and they were considering putting him [...]

May 25
Well I had tried to send Dave an update 3 or 4 days ago and just now found out that it got returned back to me. So he never got to post it. Anyways I was explaining in that message how both of the samples they tested for bone marrow transplant came [...]

May 25
Well I had tried to send Dave an update 3 or 4 days ago and just now found out that it got returned back to me. So he never got to post it. Anyways I was explaining in that message how both of the samples they tested for bone marrow transplant came [...]

May 20
Not much has changed over the last couple days. Conner is still doing good and his counts are hopefully going down soon. They have to bottom out before they come back up. I’m back on my 2 day duty with Conner and hope I have rested enough to keep [...]

May 15
It is 8:00 PM as I sit bored to death in the hospital room. Conner is sound asleep after a full day of go go go. He was wide open from the time he woke up (around until the time he got grouchy and went to sleep (about 7:30). That [...]

May 11th
I thought I was keeping up pretty good with updates until I read the last one and it was May 6th OOPS. Conner had a fun time home for the short while it lasted. The only bad part was the dressing that covered the broviac site kept getting holes in [...]

We took Conner back in on Monday May 4th for surgery. He got a new broviac, bone marrow biopsy, and spinal tap/chemo. He had labs drawn before surgery to see if counts were high enough to go ahead and admit for induction phase 2. The counts had went up, but were not [...]

About the same time Dave was posting the last update about Conner having a surgery to put in the new broviac catheter. Conner and Mommy somehow accidently were pulling that new catheter out. I guess when they ran the new line through the same hole and tunnel as the old one it made [...]