This is day 12 if you count the stem cell transfusion to be day 0. We saw a HUGE change today in the way Carla felt and her blood counts. Last night she was able to eat real food for the first time since day 2. She has been wearing a 24 hour infusor each day to help her with nausea. I think it has helped.
Since I posted last she has had to have the nausea infusor each day, one bag of platelets and an infusor for potassium and magnesium. Since she was having nausea even taking her large number of pills, they started giving her medications as IV's. This have meant that we have to stay at 7C blood lab about an extra hour or more but we know she gets her meds. We were afraid that if she threw up soon after taking her pills, then she would not be getting her meds.
Today her white cell count jumped from 0.8 to above 3! Her platelets also came up from about 30 to 54! The nurses said they wished Carla could help the other patients with their platelets.
As yet, the growth factor shots have not caused excessive bone pain. This bone pain in her back was a huge problem in transplant #1 and she didn't have much nausea. This time those side effects were just reversed.
I think today was her last time to get the meds as an IV. I think she can take her pills tomorrow. Tomorrow should be the last day for her growth factor shot.
We have a scheduled appointment with Dr. Barlogie on Monday, May 3. I anticipate that he will discharge Carla and we can go home. We both want this break to be longer than the last breaks as we feel we both need some recovery time. This means I will have to pack up all of our stuff as we will release our apartment so we don't have to pay rent over a longer break.
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