OK weekend for Luke. Two units of blood on Wednesday were followed by one unit of platelets on Friday. Also got the erwinia harpoon Friday.
He spent at lot of time on the couch this week but signs of recovery are there (guitar and model building picking up). He seems to be at the point were the cytoxan is out of his system and with that the case his counts will start to come back up. Hoping to see some white cells show up this week in his count so exposure to infection is not such a worry.
Next trip to MDA is Wednesday for erwinia. He is down to four more doses of erwinia and one dose of vincristine. After that he waits 2-4 weeks for his counts to fully recover before starting maintenance for two years. The start of maintenance involves a trial and error period of several weeks to get the dosages right but he has been told the chemo going forward will not be as toxic. Yahoo!
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Hey, handsome one. Sorry to be so late in responding to this post -- hoping and praying and wishing and thinking that your counts are all going to skyrocket and maintenance will soon be yours! Sincerely hope you are rebounding and rebuilding (and not models) so the next message will be how well you are feeling and that no one is using you as a pin-cushion any longer. Plus, when you see that one nurse again (if you do), tell her I'm going to kick her bu-tay-tay -- someone needs to, right? I may have a broken shoulder, but when it comes to you it's all good!
ReplyDeleteLove you, you punkin' head!
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