We left Sunday afternoon for D.C. and got in that night. Monday morning we got up and got ready to head to get his 4th injection and he was feeling very sick. I got him some sierra mist and pepto to help. Something I didn't know is that he usually has the opposite thing happen when taking medicine like that...and he threw up 3 times in the bushes outside the Marriot. He felt much better then and we headed to get his 4th injection. The nurses gave him some nausea medicine that made him super tired. We went back to the hotel and stayed in a dark room all day, he slept most of the day. We were going to site see that day and visit with his aunt and uncle, but decided against it since he felt so crappy.
Tuesday we got up really early and headed to do the donating part. They gave him his last injection and then hooked him up to the machine (I was not allowed back there yet, which I was ok with since it would have involved multiple needles and I would have been on the floor) So once he was all done being stuck they let me come back and camp out next to him. He got to pick some movies and they had T.V.'s for each patient to have with headphones for them and whoever was with them. I didn't really enjoy his choices so I played on Facebook and tried to take a nap when he did, but couldn't because I kept wondering if he needed something. He slept most of the 4 hours he was hooked up.
They ended up getting double the amount needed and in a shorter amount of time! So they unhooked him and gave us papers on what to watch for and all that. No worries I read it really carefully so I could properly watch him like a hawk :-) He stood right up and put on his shoes and we left to go back to the hotel where we again slept most of the day :-) We left the next morning bright and early (wait no bright, it was still dark out...) Once we were back here we layed down for about and hour and then Robbie had to get up and get ready to go into class (he wasn't allowed to miss) I took him in and them came home and laid down for awhile but he ended up only having about an hour and half of class that afternoon so basically as soon as I got home and comfy he texted me. I was ok with that though, because he needed rest.
Robbie couldn't do PT for until Monday of the next week so he would go in and watch them do their stuff and then go to class for the day. He never really had much of an issue with anything, just a few headaches here and there. He said they lasted about 20 min then would go away. He also had random bone pain, it would be in his elbow then jump to his knee. These were both side effects of the donation and went away within the week. He was great through the whole process! I was so very proud of him, as I know all of you are also!
Now for a few pictures of him during the donation:
Sleeping while donating
This is where everything came out....
This is where his blood went back in...
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