This morning at 6 AM, Adele received her last Cytoxan chemo treatment. Yes - no more chemo for her is scheduled, or needed! Tomorrow is her new "BIRTHDAY" being Day 0 on the calendar. I never expected her to have a birthday so close to mine.
She will receive her stem cells back tomorrow, I will take a picture of that for the celebration. From now on she just needs to get better. Of course, the next 10 days or so will be slowly getting worse for her. The chemo will act to drop her numbers - white cells, red cells, platelets - and probably will increase her liver numbers. Around Day 20 (from Day 15 - 25) will be the time we should see improvement in the numbers enough to be discharged.
For now, she is doing well and walking as much as she can, looking at the photos on her frame and enjoying time to watch TV and read books. We will keep TV on all day for the inauguration ceremonies. Baltimore traffic at 10 AM was no problem, seemed more like a Saturday, I am sure everyone wanting to get to Washington was already there by 10.
The doctor just asked her if she was ready for the transplant tomorrow. Nothing else was mentioned, so the nurse told her that is unusual that they had no other comments, meaning she is doing great!
See you all later - Rick
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Dear Rick & Adele!!! What a celebration for you tomorrow.. you will be in my thoughts and prayers as the doctors and nurses perform your transplant!!! You've traveled a long road to this point..BUT you made it:-)PTL!!!
ReplyDeleteRick...I'm ready to come down and give you some respite, if you want it..just give a call.
Love..Yvonne