7:30 pm

I wanted to wait and update everyone as soon as I had more information but I keep receiving e-mails from people wanting updated. At 4:00 pm Qingdao time, Brandon went into the operating room to receive a spinal (stem cell treatment). We watched as they put him to sleep & I felt so bad for him. Why does my son have to go through this - what did he ever do to deserve this - am I doing the right thing? All those questions flooded through me. About 20 minutes later we were about to go downstairs to get him when the Doctor came to see us. I knew as soon as I saw him that something was wrong. He said that before they do the stem cell treatment, they test the intracranial pressure. Normal is around 180. Brandon's was over 300. They said that it would be too risky to do the treatment and the Dr. said that Brandon needs an MRI to determine what is wrong with him. He mentioned "hydrocephalus" & that scares me. Everything is on hold until we find out the results of his MRI. If it is hydrocephalus, the stem cell treatment will be put off indefinately & we will return to the States. If the results come back okay, they still won't do the spinal treatments but will do the IV treatments. We should know more either tomorrow afternoon or Wednesday. They will transport him to another hospital 40 minutes away to do the MRI since they don't have the machine here. Please keep Brandon in your prayers.