I’m back having found this group useful before we are now ready for my mums Auto SCT on 17th Dec. Harvest just been completed. She’s obviously scared at 70 years of age! My job is to keep her motivation going right now so she’s asked me to help start getting her case packed. Please let me know what the absolute must haves are and any items which might make the stay more pleasant. We know she will have her own fridge so any go to ideas to stock in there?
on a less practical side I have a more medical question please. They have said she has 2 ‘markers’ which have some risks, but I have been only able to establish that 1 relates to the bone marrow and 1 is to do with chromosome? Any ideas on this, however I appreciate it may be a broad question?
thanks for any input
Hi again Reedy71 as for your question about the markers I don’t know but there may be someone else that can help you out.
You will find this old post Checklist for SCT Unit where you will see some suggestions as to what people thought important to have in the SCT unit.
Do you know what conditioning (chemo) will be used to take down her immune system before she gets her clean Stem Cells back?
She said it was Melphalan. Don’t trust the spelling tho 
Ok so have a look at this important thread.
