Second engraftment

Today I engrafted for the second time! And the doctors put me on a Step 2 diet, which means I CAN HAVE CHEESE! So for anyone who is getting food for me, please put cheese wherever logical! Please increase the number of times you get pasta tenfold (for the cheese :))The doctors have asked me to hold off on regular milk for now.

I HAVE LIVED A MONTH WITHOUT CHEESE! THIS IS THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CENTURY! (and also the torture of the century. Do NOT try this if it is not absolutely necessary. It will cause great discomfort to the mind).

A Fact For Everyone Part III

This post is for all the kids.

Arnav: Zach Wong played Guitar Hero for a record 50 hrs and 3 min.

Saahil: The world's largest train set can be found in Germany. It covers 12,378 ft. squared, but when it is completed in 2014, the 13 miles of track will cover more than 24,756 ft. squared. The model has more than 11,000 passenger cars and wagons, 900 signals, 3,500 buildings, and 200,000 figures.

Siddharth Z: The largest underpants in the world measured 65 ft. 7 in. across the waist and 39 ft. 4 in. from waistband to crotch.

Siddharth D: Qiu Jiangning jumped 10 ft. 2 in. through a hoop.

Harman: The fastest car went 458 mph.

August: A 1988 Volksagen Scirocco was driven 209 miles, from London to Manchester, powered by coffee.

A Fact For Everyone Part II

Today I will continue where I left off on your facts. Meanwhile I am waiting for my highly intelligent aunts and uncles to figure out how to post comments!

Ravneet Chachi: The tallest ice cream scoop pyramid had 3,100 scoops of ice cream.

Ajay Chacha: The thinnest Blu-ray player is just 0.9 inches thick.

Kanchan Chachi: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as "Baby", was the first computer to store its program internally.

Nilesh Chacha and Priya Chachi: The iPad2 is the fastest selling consumer gadget ever!

Punita Mausi and Rekha Mausi: 6.5-Weight in tons of fruit you'll consume during your life - about the same weight as a bull elephant!

Jitu Chacha and Usha Chachi: A humanoid robot named I-Fairy conducted the wedding ceremony of Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue on May 16, 2010.

Preeti Aunty, Anita Mausi and Jayshri Chachi: Kalamandalam Hemaletha danced the traditional Indian Mohiniyattam for 123 hours and 15 minutes.

Rajesh Chacha: Muttiah Muralitharan took 800 wickets in 133 Tests from August 28, 1992 to July 22, 2010.

A Fact For Everyone

This is a table of facts from the Guinness Book of World Records 2012. I will write a fact for everyone that I think they will like. Please email me if I missed you.

Anupam Chacha: Evel Knievel endured 433 fractures.

Radhika Chachi: $56,825 - your total spending on clothes. A lifetime supply of boiler suits and sensible shoes would cost $5,178. The extra $ 51,647 is the price you pay for a lifetime of fashion!

Sachin Chacha: Ashrita Furman traveled 4 miles while juggling on a pogo stick.

Sonali Chachi: 5,609 - Number of movies you will watch in a lifetime, or one every five days.

Kala Aunty (my violin teacher): Fiddler Frankie Gavin played the "The Foxhunter's Reel" at 150 bpm on Sept. 2010 in Ireland. Fact 2: The largest violin was 14 feet long and 4.5 feet wide at its widest.

Harmeek Chacha: Major Singh, a Nihang Sikh, wears a turban 1,312 feet long.

I will do more people in my next post.

A Word From My Mother

Harindra does not smile as much as before but he is definitely getting his zing and wise-cracking ways back. An example

Yesterday I was giving him a hard time, as usual, about brushing his teeth. My typical complaints are, "you don't brush round and round, you don't brush for 2 min, you space out while brushing etc. etc. Yesterday it was, " you don't take enough toothpaste. I never see foam in your mouth!"

Pat came the triumphant reply with a victorious hand in the air, "Because I don't have rabies!"

Poopoo Power!

When the doctors started me on steroids, I started gaining weight very fast. I became all puffy, my arms and legs swelled up, and my face became round. I was already on fluids, so the doctors think that it is fluid retention caused by the steroids. At one point, I was 16 pounds above my regular weight!!!!!! Slowly, over the days, I started losing weight by exercising. Now, I am 5 pounds over my usual weight, and my body is much more normal-looking. Sometimes, when I eat, I feel as if my stomach will burst! Then I go #2. It is AMAZING how much relief a good go can give you when you are bloated. then my parents get all eager to check my weight to see how much weight I lost after my little trip. Poop rocks:)

My Lesson

Yesterday my tutor, Kevin, had come by. He works in the school here at the hospital. Together, we started doing some Khan academy, a website to practice math. I was doing an exercise called "exponent rules" with Kevin. The type was very small, so Kevin was having a hard time reading the exponents. It was actually quite funny, seeing Kevin squinting at the screen, thinking a 7 was a 3 and so on (no offense to you, Kevin). Even he had forgotten some of the things in the exercise, so we slowly went through it together, remembering things, (since I used to be proficient in the exercise, I just messed up and had to restart) and getting things wrong a lot until we finally got 10 correct in a row (you need to get 10 in a row correct in order to become proficient).

For anyone who wants to try Khanacademy, all you need to do is use either your Gmail or Facebook account to log in (no registration required). The website is www.khanacademy.org

TV

A few days ago, Manimau got us a Korean TV show
called "Jumong" from the library.It is about a Korean prince named Jumong who united Korea a long time ago. It has a complicated plot, lots of action, royal family feuding, and deception.


Papa had seen it a few years ago and
wanted to see it again. We used to watch it at night while eating dinner, but I had to go to bed early because I was little. Papa would still watch it after I went to sleep even though I told him not to, and wouldn't rewind it the next day saying that I could watch what I missed in the day. I never got time in the day though, so he ended up watching most of it without me, and I would only see random parts in the middle. Now though since I have more time at hand and sleep at the same time as my parents, I can see the whole thing properly.


See it for yourself!

BEEPING PUMPS!!!!!!!

I am going to have nightmares about these medicine pumps later when I get out of the hospital, when I can actually get some sleep. They are so noisy, and I have 5!! If a pump battery is low for a few minutes, it will tell you to restart the pump and restore the program. Until the nurse does that, we can't even mute it!! When the pumps aren't ringing, they are making these really loud and irritating clicking sounds while they infuse me! These pumps might just be the worst part of the hospital.

Weird Dance

Yesterday Manimau got me the TV show set of Archie.

Mama was very excited and wanted to watch it immediately, so we started watching it while eating dinner. The voices sounded pretty weird and mismatched, and the characters looked different from their paper versions, but it was still quite funny. Most of all, after every episode, they would show a dance which you could "watch and learn", like "The Rocket" or "The Surfer". The dances were so funny and ridiculous, we were laughing the whole time!

Peeing, peeing, and some more peeing

This post is for Sachin chacha and Anupam chacha, the pee/poo information cravers.


Every day @5am and 5pm, I get a medicine to make me pee. Then later, I get a fluid bolus to make me pee out MORE medicine!! Many times, the nurse will not have emptied the urinal, so by morning it has around 900 ml in it! It can get quite heavy too. I wonder how much I have peed since coming here...


Then we have the rectal waste issue. I can elaborate... if you want.


Please post a comment so I can know what to write next. Is there anything in particular you want to know about?

Feeling better

Yesterday my teacher had come. Right now he is teaching me US history.
History does not interest me much, but I try to listen. After he left,
my nurse, Julie, from my old hospital came for a visit. she got me a
lot of things! She got me a huge pack of Pirate's Booty, scones, and
other sweets for my parents. Julie is very nice. A little later the
OT therapist, Sarah, dropped by, so my mom and Julie went and got some coffee.
Meanwhile I played some badminton with Sarah. After Sarah left, I started working on a Lego set that my aunt had gotten me. I worked on the Lego for a few hours, then I
got tired, so I sat down in bed and read a little bit. I lay down for a bit until Ravneet Chachi came with some food. I tried to eat a little and then fell asleep.

Who am I?

I am a 10 year old boy in the hospital undergoing a stem cell transplant(SCT).
This is the third time I have had cancer, so the doctors are giving me a SCT to make sure it doesn't come back. I completely missed kindergarten, missed most of first grade, and then missed the last three months of fourth grade. Luckily, my teachers are very nice and used to come tutor me. Now, the hospital school tutors me until I come back to school.
Today I had to use my PCA (Patient Controlled Analgaesic). PCA is a machine where I can push a button and get pain medicine once every hour. I was having a headache today.
My mom has stinky coffee breath (don't go near her right now, I am going to faint)!!!