The nurse came in this afternoon to explain how it's all going to go down. Apparently there are ten bags of stem cells. Five bags will be infused each day for two days. They'll bring the bags to the room frozen and heat them up in in a warm water bath. The bags have been stored in DMSO. They say there will be an odor exuding from Jim's body as he sort of burns it off. The nurse calls it "off-gassing". She said it would be coming out of his pours and breath and any other secretions. The actual "transplant" will take about a couple of hours each day. Side effects include nausea, headache etc.
Jim has just been real lethargic these days. He doesn't feel like doing anything but overall he is doing really well considering.
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