Human Pin Cushion

Matthew's feet are still really swollen. They are swollen to the point that he is stuck in a wheel chair. He also has to ice his legs a lot and take more meds to help it.

This isn't the best picture, but you can kind of see how swollen he is:

Here is a way better one:

Going back into time really fast...On April 8th and 9th, he had to go to the Phoenix Children's Hospital and complete the testing I talked about on my March 20th post. 

Here he is getting an Xray for those tests:

On Sunday, April 14th, T had to go into the hospital Sunday night because he had a fever of 103. Right after Bishop Livingston interviewed him to receive his patriarchal blessing, dad took him to the hospital. While he was there, he got an IV antibiotic and got home around 12:30AM.

He has been going in every other day to get platelets for the past few weeks. On the 17th, he went in for platelets, but they were only able to boost him from 7,000 to 14,000. Since he had to have bone a marrow aspiration and a bone biopsy on the 18th, they admitted him to the hospital over the night of the 17th. He was able to go out to Urban Legends for pizza with his volleyball team before he had to go in, which was great. Once he was at the hospital, they gave him four units of platelets through the night to boost them up to 50,000 before his procedures. On the 18th, he went into surgery at 8AM, and he was in a lot of pain when he woke up.

This is his lower back a few days after the procedure. That actually looks good compared to what it was. All of those little, dark dots around that huge one are his past bone marrow aspiration sites. He has quite the collection now. T said he has 15 poke marks on his back...that's not including where they have poked his hips.