#Loganstrong

Although Logan is feeling miserable he still has time to sing. The above video is him humming and then giving the camera a wink. He is feeling horrible still w/ a lot of pain. Nausea seems to be under control as well as pain. He is sleeping a lot which is o.k. He is on a continuous does of morphine and the when the pain gets worse they give him a little boost of more. Today we also go get our weekly x-ray to make sure no fluids in chest/lungs. We have not heard anything so no news is good news. I put pictures of him doing great at the x-ray as well as him lying in bed.

This sucks! Logan is feeling horrible. It is not the nausea part but the pain. They are going to increase his dose of morphine this morning. He hurts everywhere…mainly his ears and tummy. As long as he is sleeping or not moving he feels o.k. But unfortunately the nurses are always needing to do vitals, hook a tube up, etc. Thank God we have the best nurses in the world. Currently as I am typing this Logan is cuddled up w/ his Superman blanket watching Mickey Mouse. Last night Logan’s temperature hovered around 103 degrees! They said this is common at this stage until we see counts start to rise. This will hopefully start to happen late this week.

It is so hard to see your kid in pain. I would give the world to change places w/ him.

Logan had another great day today. They moved us to a different room and it is twice the size of the other one. I wanted to post the video of the nurses singing but Kelly accidentally had the camera on the wrong switch to record….oops:) I did record some other stuff though so I will get that posted. Our super hero continues to amaze the staff. Today he was out riding bikes and the doctors just shook there heads and said most all kids at this stage are in bed all day and do not move much. Currently as I type this Logan is playing w/ the controls on his bed and moving it up & down and while he does it he dances…..he has his mom’s moves unfortunately;)
Everyone that lives in the Puyallup School district you should be getting the monthly newspaper put out by the district called Connections. There is a great article about Logan in it and how students and staff have rallied around Logan & Family.

Happy Friday to all! Logan’s stem cell transplant went great. It only lasted 8 minutes…..Kelly described it as a quick blood transfusion. All the nurses on the floor came in and sang Happy Transplant Day to Logan and they made him a big sign. Kelly video taped it and I hope to get the video up soon. Logan’s mouth is pretty sore but they are combating it w/ pain medicine. They anticipate this next week to be the hardest….w/ that being said Logan continues to amaze us all w/ his attitude and strength. When I called Kelly to check on him this morning they were racing each other on a video game.

Kelly stayed the night w/ Logan for the first time last night…and I stayed the night at home w/ Peyton for the first time. Although we both (Kelly & I) did not sleep much everything went great. Thank you family for all your help w/ the boys. It is great having Aunt Kristi here helping out. Logan loves having her around. Thank you Pat, Traci, & family for helping w/ Peyton. Thank You Mom & David as well for helping w/ Peyton & putting your lives on hold to help us. You both being here has been a blessing.

Logan is doing….o.k. He is doing 100 times better than I would ever do. Last night Aunt Kristi & Grandma stayed w/ Logan. He fell asleep at 7pm and woke up at 7am. Today he had a chest x-ray to check for fluid in the lungs…there was none. He did great. He also wore his Starbucks apron and Grandma wheeled him around in a wheel chair and he made nurses Lattes. Today he also got a blood transfusion…it gave him great color. I came in the room after work today and it looked like Logan had been in a tanning bed.

I am not sure if I mentioned this in an earlier blog so forgive me if I am repeating myself. After Logan received his second chemo he had his own cells harvested (they will transfuse them back to him Thursday). They were hoping to get 10 million cells that day. Most kids give between 5 to 10 million. Super hero Logan gave them 80 million. So far all doctors that have come in this week to talk w/ us about the stem cell don’t believe it. They have never seen anything like it. One doctor asked if his energy was down that night after harvesting the cells….nope wild as ever…she just shook her head. So when he gets his cells back they said 5 million is o.k. 10 million in great. They are going to give Logan back 40 million! They will keep the rest frozen. What’s this mean…not much. They said he might get better quicker (counts up). I just wanted to reiterate the Super Hero part….doing karate kicks 3 days after having 6″ incision in his abdomen, feeling horrible but still managing to tell jokes, smile, and harass the nurses, and the 80 million cells! This kid is amazing!

Logan curled up in my arms at 4:30pm and fell fast asleep….he laid on my chest in the chair and felt so warm. I love to kiss his bald head because it is so soft. He is an amazing little boy. I just sit here across the room and look over all the time wondering am I in a dream? Everyday I walk in the room and see L. Lewis outside on a name tag and can’t believe that is my L. Lewis. I love Logan so much and hate to see him in pain…I cannot wait until he beats this and is able to play T-ball again and brag in the car after the game how far he hit it…or play soccer again and brag how far he kicked it….or go golfing w/ Dad, Grandpa, and friends and every hole tell us his score is a birdie……I love you Logan! I am your dad and I am supposed to protect you….I am so proud to call you my son. I love you Logan so much.

The chemo is catching up w/ Logan. He has been off & on sick yesterday & today. The hospital staff put together a nice birthday gift for Logan. Yesterday he fell asleep around 4:30pm and besides waking up to go potty woke up at 5:30am. Today he has just been relaxing. We tried to go for a little walk but he got dizzy.

Tomorrow will be a little milestone for Logan. Hopefully it will be the last day in his life that he will receive chemo. They finish chemo around 11am and then they will let his body rest until Thursday then they will start stem cell. They anticipate him being pretty weak 10 days after stem cell and odd are he will probably get mucositis (soars in his mouth all the way down to his tummy).