Post Transplant: Day 2

Since Jared's transplant on Tuesday it has been a pretty rough couple days. Jared has been in a lot of pain, extremely nauseous, and completely exhausted. Yesterday was a very hard day for Jared both physically and emotionally. Throughout this entire process, Jared has been very positive but these last couple days have really tested his positive attitude. Watching Jared be so unbelievably uncomfortable breaks my heart. He has not been able to keep barley any food or nutrients down, and has been sleeping most of the day. We had a nurse come to his house and she taught me how to do IV fluids at home. So everyday he gets 1000 ML of fluids at home, to help him stay hydrated. We are thinking that Jared will go into the hospital in the next couple days, his mouth is getting soars, and is very swollen and that will just continue to get worse. He can’t continue to not eat, as well as if he gets a spike in his temperature ever. As weird as this may sound Jared wants to go into the hospital, just to feel more secure and be given his medications through IV. We go to a blood draw and a appointment every single day so one day they will just tell us its time to go to the hospital, so we will see what happens. 

Tonight when Jared was feeling pretty terrible and pretty low, he asked to me to blog and tells everyone to pray for him! He thought it might be helpful to tell you what he really needs prayer for right now. This is the list he gave me....

• Strength both mentally and physically (he feels very low because of how terrible he feels and the idea that this could continue for a few more weeks in terrifying)
• That his mouth will not continue to get worse, and that the swelling will go down
• To be able to have a peace and positivity

These were a couple things he said, but just please continue to pray for continued recovery and that while his counts continue to drop that he will not develop any infections. Jared is so strong and so brave and I know he will get through all of this, it is just no fun right now! 

This is his I dont feel good face! But he still has lots of hair!