"We met with a bone marrow transplant Dr. on Wednesday January 23rd at the clinic at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Phoenix. They filled us in on what was going to take place with Matthew in the coming months. Matthew's Dr. wants him to have about 3 more chemo sessions at the clinic in Mesa and then he will go in for an outpatient surgery to have his port realigned and a broviac tube put into his chest by his port. This will make it much easier for them to give him his chemo and meds and a nutrition line because he always loses so much weight while he is in the hospital. He is now receiving a neupogen shot everyday for the next 10 days and that started on Sat. the 26th. (he is not happy about this). This is to bring back his white blood cell counts and double them so that they can go and take some stem cells for the transplant. The transplant that Matthew is going to be getting is called an Autologous Stem Cell Transplant. This is where they take his own stem cells and then freeze them and then give him enough chemo in the hospital to kill everything. Good and Bad. Then he will get his transplant and then it's a waiting game for his counts to all come back up. He will spend about 4 weeks in the hospital and won't be able to leave his room the whole time. (He is dreading this because everyone knows how much he hates the hospital). When his counts come back they will let him go home and then hopefully he will be healthy and ready to live the rest of his life.
Please continue to pray and fast for him because this will make him sick and we need everyone's continued faith throughout all of this. He will also need his friends to continue to come and see him at the hospital because his friends make a huge difference in his mood and healing. We are looking for fun things for Matthew to do in the hospital so if anyone has a fun puzzle or Lego models for big kids just laying around that will help pass the time, would be great for him. We will take any ideas that anyone might have."
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