We’re officially less than a week until transplant day. Today was Michelle’s last day of chemotherapy. She got her 3rd dose of Fludarabine and 2nd dose of Cytoxan.
After an emotionally and physically challenging Thursday night, I’m glad she’s not getting any more chemo. You can tell this chemo is pretty strong. And with all [...]

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I got an unexpected phone call on Saturday from a nurse asking that I come in on Sunday because the on-call physician wanted me to get my blood drawn because my wbcs have been slightly dropping. I immediately went into Freak Out mode and thought I had relapsed. The nurse reassured me that [...]

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Today we met with the attending, Dr. Pagel, and the blue team nurse to go over all of the consent forms for the cord blood transplant and to go over our transplant schedule. Dr. Delaney likes to say that “repetition is the key to learning” and I think that’s the Hutch’s motto because we [...]

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When I found out that I would be #10 on Dr. Delaney’s expansion protocol, I got freaked out. Being an information hoarder, I wanted to be like #1,253,999 or something so I could get reliable and concrete statistics about this protocol. I wanted to be on a successful protocol that has been around [...]

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It feels like I’m the new kid in school. I even had those butterflies that I used to get before starting a new school….excited to make new friends, eager to be the class teacher’s pet (I’m a nerd. In this case, I’m trying to win over my doctors and nurses), and hopeful that [...]

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