November 25th: day +8

Well things have been the same. Each day is filled with lots of meds, bloody nose, throwing up, mouth and throat sores, and just sitting around. Here are a few pictures, the first is of my new bone marrow before they gave it to me. Then there is how I currently spend my day, and that it playing with Legos. Last is a picture of my eye. The other day I was throwing up while my platelets were low and I burst a blood vessel in my eye. It does not hurt but it does not look very good. Thank you for everything. Love, Trent.

Saturday November 24th

Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. I slept most of the day. I could not get any turkey down so I had the tpn. Yum, Yum. The week has been ok I got the pain button so I can use it 6 times an hour. It is very nice and I am able to keep my pain ok. Before I forget GO COUGARS!!! 17-10 I was sleeping through most of it but Mom listened to it and would scare me when she screamed. It sounds like it was a great game. Sorry Utah fans we know the best team won!!! My body is doing ok thank goodness there has been no infection. The worst is I throw up about once a day it stinks but they say that it's normal for bone marrow patients. Nothing much is new hope everyone is doing good and is off to a great holiday season.

Love Trent

Monday November 19th

Well the mouth sores are here and getting worse each day!!! I told mom it feels like someone is taking a knife to my throat it hurst so bad!! They say it will be like this maybe a little worse until the bone marrow takes. They had me taking a pill for pain but it hurts to bad so every two hours they are giving me morphin and that works great. I am so hungry but everything I eat hurts so bad. I finally found some marshmellows and those don't hurt so I am living off them right now. Me and mom are trying to keep busy. I am pretty tired and feel icky most of the day so we talk a lot. Hope everyong has a great Thanksgiving week.

Love Trent

November 17th: bone marrow birthday

Well today was the big day. It started off with my waking up and throwing up right away. I then went back to sleep until eleven and then woke up throwing up again. The donor got to the procedure late so the bone marrow missed the plane last night. The courier(volunteer) apparently drove to the nearest city with an airport to catch a flight this morning. The marrow got to the hospital about 1o:00 and then had to be prepared. I got the tranplant at 4:45. Everything has gone good, no reactions as of yet. My room was full of people today for my bone marrow birthday party. More mouth sores are starting to form and are supposed to get worse over the next three weeks until the bone marrow begins producing new cells. Thank you to everyone who came to visit in the last two days and for your prayers. Love, Trent.

November15th: day -2 in process

I am so tired today. The chemo does 2 things to my body, one part kills all fast growing cells the other part goes to my kidney's and can damage them. So they put me on a ton of fluids so I can pee all the chemo out and so it won't damage my kidney's. Because of this they make me pee every 2 hours, again. I hate waking up in the night to pee. I gave mom & the nurse a hard time because I was so tired and just wanted to sleep. Mom would have let me if the nurses were not there, but I know they are just doing what is best!!! So today is the last day of chemo thank goodness!!! I am so ready for a rest day it's not even funny! My throat hurts because of the mouth sores that are starting to form so I am not eating hardly anything. Tommorrow night they will probably put me on TPN (which is nutrition in my line) because I am not taking in enough calories. I asked the nurse why they didn't do it sooner cuz mom and dad kept trying to make me eat. She laughed. I want to tell everyone thanks for fasting and praying for me.

Love Trent

November 14th: -3 day in process

Well I finished radiation yesterday with flying colors. Today I started chemo and it's been kind of hard. I was ok for the first few hours but after that the nausea started coming. It's been a tough day but I am excited I only have one more day left. Mom and I made Thanksgiving decorations for my room, it's very fun. Well thanks again for everything.

Love Trent

Sunday 11th: -6 day in process

Well today me and dad went a little crazy the nurse had to come and tell us to be quiet because a little boy in the room next to me is very sick and needed to sleep. So we tried the rest of the day to be quiet!!! I threw up this morning after I took my pills, UGH I hate to throw up!!! Other than that it's been a good day!!

Love Trent