It's pretty wild how the bone marrow rransplant will change your taste, allergies ...etc.... Anyway, here is the latest .....

Friday, April 24, 2009 10:32 AM, CDT

Well, we didn't grow any new cells today. The Doctors told us that happens sometimes, we even lost one. Let's hope tomorrow we go up again instead of down!
Levi on the other hand is feeling better. We are going off the morphine pump and hopefully we won't have to have to ask for it at all. He is still on antibiotics, and we are trying to keep him off of TPN. But he still is not eating a whole lot. With the taste buds being changed mostly what he wants are sweet and salty, spicey foods- which do not sit very well in a stomach that has barely been working for three weeks! But you cannot taste the bland foods that would be gentler on the stomach.
Levi played around alot yesterday, his first day of feeling real well. He kind of over did it and is real sore today. But he has his sense of humor back, which is fun. Frank spent the night at the hospital with him last night, I heard Levi spent hours discussing science with one of the nurses. Uncle Louie you would have been proud- he would not back down from creation, explaining how eveloution could not really be proven. That's the old Levi. Stubborn as rocks! He once talked a radio station into rewording their commercial because he refused to say he wanted to be something when he grew up that wasn't true, not even for pretend! They finally came to a mutual agreement and did the commercial.
Well let's hope he's too stubborn to let this cancer beat him!