August 3,2009/ Day -11

Today begins Tuckers journey to getting healthy.Our journey starts at 3am when we have to wake up to get ready for the adventure.It is so bittersweet, we know that Tucker has to go thru so much, but in the end, he will be a healthy happy baby!! We arrived at CHOP today at 6am. We were all very nervous and not sure what to expect. They took Tucker into surgery about 8:00 to put in 2 central lines. They are lines that are surgically placed into his chest and run into a large artery in his heart. The purpose of them is so they can administer his meds thru them & draw all his blood that way & dont always have to stick him. So far they dont realy seem to bother him.
He slept alot thru the afternoon & didnt have much appetite, which was to be expected. As evening came he started to get a little restless, & more alert. The anestesia was wearing off, and I think he started wondering what was going on.
They started his first meds at 8pm. They are the antibiotics. We didnt get much sleep, between The nurses coming in quite often & him just being restless it was a long night. The first round of chemo started at 2am. At 430 they begin takin lots of blood for all kinds of tests.
All in all it wasnt a bad start to a new begining!!!
Please keep praying!!!!!!!!!!!!!