Unfortunately Cutler is still in a lot of pain from the mucisitis and cried out several times throughout the night to let me know.  On top of that pain, he is also having to endure the pain of having his dressing changed multiple times since yesterday as the blood is still not clotting.  They say that his platelets are alright, but he will be receiving more soon and he was also provided with a medicine called amicar that should help in the clotting process.  With the most recent dressing change they have applied some more surgiseal and gauze with pressure prior to applying the covering so we are hoping that with the pressure and new gauze it will finally clot.

Just watching him go through the pain he is makes me realize that there is no pain as great as that of your children.  It breaks my heart every time to watch him go through the dressing change especially when they clean the area and you can tell the alcohol wipes are burning him.  But amazingly enough, Cutler quickly recovers and reminds me that pain is only temporary.  Regardless, we are waiting on a pump to have a fentanyl drip set up so that we will have control, with the friendly button, on how often he receives the relief.  Below is a picture of Cutler showing his strength not ten minutes after one of his dressing changes.