Friday, October 10, 2008

Wow - so many appts

Sept and Oct have been a rush of doctor appointments. Dr Balepur, Dr Zimmerman (possible Bexaar treatment), Dr Meade in JH.. Final thoughts are - no Bexaar but a full bone marrow transplant is needed.

Adele will be having a BMT using her own bone marrow (stem cells) taken from her blood and frozen until she is ready for re-implantation. This will be done at John Hopkins with Dr Meade as the leading physician in the team. Many tests and other things need to be done before then.

First thing is to have 2 or 3 rounds of RICE chemo treatments to get the cancer under control somewhat. Then JH has the say at what we will do then.

I am writing this to fill in the gaps (on Dec 10) so we know there were 2 treatments of RICE and the tests at JH are many. Already through 2 days (14 appts) and have many more days of procedures before we are able to get into the BMT procedure.