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Time marches on

OK, as some of you may have noted, I've reverted back to the old theme. I guess I wasn't really happy with the new theme either, so................

In the interim, while I work on a new and improved design, I thought I'd give everyone an update on what has transpired, over the course of the past month, with Edie and me.

I'm pretty much still the same, although my lymphocyte count did take a big jump, from 86 thou/cum in November to 106 thou/cum in December. I have been as high as 95 thou/cumm in previous months, so that's not as big a jump as it might appear at first glance.

The good news is my hemoglobin and platelets were stable, even improved some, from November, so my bone marrow still appears to be functioning, at least partially well, leading me to believe the test may have been a fluke. It is known that when the numbers get that high, the variations also increase. I'll know more next week, when I have my next blood test.

As for Edie, she is currently getting ready for an autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplant (PBSCT).

Today she goes for a tread mill test and tomorrow an echo cardiagram to make sure her heart is up to it. If everything looks good, she'll receive her first cytoxan infusion on Friday, to kill off what ever myeloma may be left after the Velcade treatments. Then the following week she'll be receiving growth stimulating drugs, stimulating the production of stem cells.

If all goes well, she'll have are stem cells collected at the end of the month, and the transplant sometime either the end of this month, or the beginning of February.

After that's it's simply a waiting game, hopefully learning how successful the transplant was about 30 days afterwards.

I'll keep everyone posted as time goes on.
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