So I live in the Sacramento California area. I moved here last July (2008) from the east coast, and my husband was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, mid relocation. I found the WhatNow? site last August and my journey for support and care in our cancer journey began. I have met amazing people on this site, caregivers (like me) and patients who have encouraged me, enlightened me, inspired me, and given me the necessary…
As many of you know I'm in the States and in the middle of our relocation from the East Coast (outside Washington DC in Maryland) to the West Coast (Sacramento, California) my husband of 27 years was dx with Multiple Myeloma. We have spent this last year shuttling back and forth from our new home to LIttle Rock, Arkansas for his medical intervention. We are all done with that now, two SCT later! YAY! Dave is doing…
We got discharged this morning as we had hoped. Dave is doing fabulous, though fatigued of course. The doc would like us to come back in 6-8 weeks and dangled the caveat that it would only be 3 days! hahaha He said he just wanted to get Dave started on his maintenance therapy which are less toxic drugs and good for his bones. So we went ahead and scheduled it.
I wrote a letter to an oncologist that I had heard good things…
Wow! Dave's White Blood Count is now up over 5 (2 being the target) from 1.6 yesterday. The stopped the growth factor shot, thank goodness. His CRP (which measures infection) dropped again and is now 15.8 with under 10 being insignificant, and 15 is not worrisome either, mostly because it is trending downward. They stopped the antibiotic infusers yesterday since it was trending down. His platelets are at 30, but they…
We are in Day -10 (from 21) and Day #8 (from zero at the time of the stem cell transplant).
Dave is doing AMAZING! I can hardly believe it. He feels tired and crappy at times, but it is just light years from the first one we did last December and I'm really, really proud of him. His white blood count (WBC) dropped down to 0.02 and in a couple of days is now back up to 0.30, which is a big jump. So he experienced…
