Today is Adrian's big day - it was the day of his re-birth! The cord blood that was retrieved from the umbilical cord on the day when he was born has traveled across the miles and was transfused back to him today to rebuild his blood/marrow that has been damaged from the intensive chemo treatments. The Transplantation took place at 15:00 sharp when Adrian was napping. Baby had a very mild discomfort during transfusion as expected while he was under close monitoring on ECG & SaO2. He resumed normal shortly after the transfusion and behaved like a normal person. However, our whole unit smells like rotten eggs/fishy because of the cord blood preservatives and it will last for a few days as per the nurses. We patiently await for Adrian's counts to hit the trough and re-bounce back - that's when the marrow starts growing again. The whole process can take up to 30 - 45 days from today. Adrian's whole body system is all reformatted like a PC that all his vaccination records have been erased as of today. He'd have to be vaccinated all over again (as if he's a new born baby) a year from now when his marrow starts to fully function.
Adrian's sitting on his highchair, noted all the wires on his feet for monitoring!
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