Valerie got home late Thursday night after spending about 4 day in the hospital for an infection/fever/procedures/etc. She is so happy to be home and is grateful she gets to sleep in her own bed and be close to the kids. She did have to go right back early the next morning for a PET and CT scan to see how responsive her body has been to the chemo. Fingers crossed everyone!
After getting the antibiotics that she needed to kill the bacterial infection it seemed as though she was having trouble producing platelets. Her white blood count was creeping up slowly but her platelets were continually low.
This needed to be addressed because she still needed to get her IT chemo. The way that this chemo is administered is from a lumbar puncture and when your platelets are low, your blood won't clot and seal the lumbar puncture. I believe they gave her 6 bags of donated platelets total and on Thursday afternoon, her count was high enough for the procedure the take place.
The biggest side-effect of the IT chemo is headaches. The best way Valerie has been able to manage the pain is to lay down and be still. If you know Valerie, she HATES this. She would much rather be doing something fun or productive than laying down watching TV of surfing the web. It literally drives her crazy.
Tomorrow (Monday) morning is going to be busy. First appointment is at 9AM and the last is at 5PM. We'll know more tomorrow but these appointments are in relation to her stem cell transplant and collection. Hope all goes according to plan.
One day at a time.
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