New central line

On Friday, Cael got his new central line. It is a broviac central line that goes into a vein in his neck, and the other end is tunneled under his skin and comes out about 2 inches below his colar bone. He was put out while they did the surgery. He did great! He was pretty groggy the rest of the day, but still slept well. He was a "work in" for the procedure, so he had to stop eating at 5:30 AM. His surgery didn't end up being until 3:00, though. Poor guy was starving by the time they took him. And he didn't really eat the rest of the day since he was so tired from the anesthesia.

Saturday, he was still in a little pain, but otherwise doing very well. He ate great and was pretty much back to himself.

This morning the nurse said she wasn't able to get any blood return from the new line. The vascular access team was going to come to try to get it working, but the day nurse just tried it and was able to get it working. Hopefully that was just a one time fluke that won't be a big problem in the future. It will be super important to have working for the next several weeks. He is going to be receiving medication 24/7 once conditioning starts. We will probably even be going home with it in him. I think that is in case he needs any medications when we go in for checkups, which will be very often for the first few weeks.

Adam's aunt Pam and uncle Joe stopped by for their weekly visit on Friday. Since Cael was pretty out of it, Pam got a lot of good cuddle time in.

We are still waiting for the transfer. It will probably early this week. We are just waiting for a bed to be available on the BMT or the hemotology/oncology floor.

Pretty boring today, but I guess that is good. I'd rather have slow days than lots of excitement due to issues or complications. We just need to get his line working and it will be a good day again today.