with my brother at the UofU Hospital in SLc

I would like to start a blog of the account of my brother Dennis who has cancer and how things are going each day so as he gets better I can see the highs and low of the things he has to go throw to beat this.

He started up at the 1st of the week to the Huntsman Cancer Hospital to have his stem cell pulled out of him. But instead of having that done on Tuesday morning his son Scott had a hard time getting him out of the trailer and to the Huntsman Cancer Hospital. When they got him to the nurse they said that no they was not going to get to put the port in for the drawing of the cell but they put him right into the hospital because his blood pressure was way to low. Which was a good thing he has sleep most all day long. Which he needed to do any. One of the concerns now that his kidney needs to get working normally and to get his blood pressure where it should be. He hasn't been drink enough liquids so they have liquids going into him pretty heavy.
Kathy has spent all day up here and now has headed home so that she can work her long day tomorrow. I will be staying up here tonight and all day tomorrow and tomorrow night until she gets back up here.
Last Wednesday they gave him a shot to help to build the stem cells in his blood stream and then tomorrow again they will try again. They need to collect about 2,000,000 stem cell to do the transplant which after they send him home for 2 week they will start that process which time he will be up here for 3 to 4 weeks or less depending on his recovery.

I have noticed with this process it all depends on him as to how they do thing they will tell us in general what should take place but we have found out it can and has changed of how his body reacts to things. We shouldn't be in the hospital but again they take very good care of him and make sure everything is where they need it to be to move forward.
If everything goes right, Tomorrow we are to get the port put in so that they can start Thrusday to pull out the stem cells. And hopefully he can came home next week.
With Kathy's help I will try and keep this up to date so that I can remember what is happen each day.