Bone Marrow Extraction Procedure!

Hello everyone,


Yesterday, I had the bone marrow extraction procedure done. At first, I was a bit nervous because I did not know how sterile the practice and the hospital was but suprisingly enough, the hospital was very sterile and they took very good care of before and during the surgery. I was in the operating room for about 30 minutes. After the procedure, they took me to a recovery room where I was in there for around another 30 minutes. Then, I got to go home. I thought I was going to be in pain after the procedure, but oddly enough, I am not. I am not the least one bit sore. I am able to move around and function normally like I would on an everyday basis. The procedure overall went very well, and I have no complaints.

Today and tomorrow, I have nothing to do stem cell procedure wise, so Mom wants to go to the Panama Canal one of those days if I feel up to going. If we do end up going, I will post pictures up on the blog for everyone to see. If not, you will probably not be seeing me blog until Thursday night to let everyone know what they are going to do Friday (which is the first day of the stem cell injection which is going to be through my spine). The reason I have off today and tomorrow is because The Stem Cell Institute has to seperate my stem cells from bone marrow then, they will mix it with my blood.

The videos of today's procedure (the bone marrow extraction) can be viewed below. Beware the videos may be a little graphic. Until next time, so long!