Well, thank you all for your well wishes, good thoughts, and prayers!! I received my cells this morning about 11 am, and they are slushing around in my body, hopefully going to work as needed. =) It was done as a blood transfusion for the most part- the nurse pushed them through my port slowly. It made me pretty nauseous, so they gave me drugs for that, and kinda just knocked me out. (I've been so tired all week from so little sleep in a hospital.) Then it was done. I got some rest from the knockout drugs and ate lunch! (Big deal!) It's made my legs ache a bit and so I got some pain medicine for that, otherwise, I don't feel much at this point. The big goal is to not have them get rejected of course. Just go in, become the new base for the white, red, and platelet cells to grow from in the next few weeks. And work like superstars, so any leukemic cells will be destroyed. And so the waiting begins again....
Not much else to report!! Thanks again, friends. =)
Friday, July 22, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Transplant
Well, I am on the edge of yet another hospital admission. The big one. I am dreading it. Another 3-4 weeks of no life, but nurses, doctors, and taking my vitals every 4 hours. I know I should be grateful that I have a bone marrow/stem cell donor, but I feel so "not well" these days, I'm just not game for all this yet. But I really am grateful to the unknown 23 yr old woman who is taking injections daily to up her white cells just for me. You are a saint, whoever you are, and I love you for being so willing to help me like this.
All that medical miracle stuff is great... I just don't want it to be me. So much can happen where things go wrong, I fear this admission. I fear this is a mistake. I feel like I'm leaping into a chasm with blind faith that someone will catch me. They say this is the best chance I have. Saying goodbye to my cells and hoping hers take over and fix everything. I'm sad that my body has failed. I'm still stunned after all these months that these words are in my daily life- stem cell, donor, transplant, chemo, chemo, chemo.... I have no idea what happened to make my life this way- I am certainly not living the high life here.
Anyway, the killing off of my cells (for the last time, I hope) begins on the 14th with more chemo for 6 days, then a rest day, then on the 21st, I receive the new cells as a transfusion. Then I wait to see if they take or reject, and I'm sure, receive a billion drugs in the meantime in the weeks that follow.
That's it for now!
All that medical miracle stuff is great... I just don't want it to be me. So much can happen where things go wrong, I fear this admission. I fear this is a mistake. I feel like I'm leaping into a chasm with blind faith that someone will catch me. They say this is the best chance I have. Saying goodbye to my cells and hoping hers take over and fix everything. I'm sad that my body has failed. I'm still stunned after all these months that these words are in my daily life- stem cell, donor, transplant, chemo, chemo, chemo.... I have no idea what happened to make my life this way- I am certainly not living the high life here.
Anyway, the killing off of my cells (for the last time, I hope) begins on the 14th with more chemo for 6 days, then a rest day, then on the 21st, I receive the new cells as a transfusion. Then I wait to see if they take or reject, and I'm sure, receive a billion drugs in the meantime in the weeks that follow.
That's it for now!
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