Request from Marcia - my Dearest fellow vagabond back-packing lovely soul-Sist'a in London who's spent so much time with me exploring various crazy-assed & remote parts of this wild world...."Please dumb all this way down...for my sake". Even giving permission to use her name here.
So it goes:
Day 44 post-chemo #2 (!!!). Original donor Bruce all set-up & ready to donate again - this time "lymphocyte" cells. But.... DLI treatment now on HOLD. As of yesterday still no reasonable cell return. Neutrophils - the most important - have bleeped in & out with 0.01, 0.00, and 0.02. Nothing solid. Nor anywhere near where they should be. I have been "on the cusp" for 14+ days now without getting over that cusp. No improvement. Needed a bag of Platelet's again last night cuz apparently not holding them vey long. Last transfusion was Wed night.
May now need to skip DLI, go directly to "mini"-transplant (!!!) using Bruce's stem cells (hmmm ?) instead of a New donor simply because he's all lined-up & ready to donate. Mini-transplant has never even been discussed before. Am rather stunned at this newest development. Things not looking as good as they most certainly should be at this point. In fact, rather daunting.
And there it is....
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