Hi everyone!
Sorry :0) I am late again. With clinic on Monday and a blood drive yesterday, I'm just getting to the update tonight.
Our visit at clinic on Monday was very good. We learned a lot in a short time. After Alex got her blood drawn it was all about waiting for the results to get back before the doctors came in. There's nothing really they can talk to us about until they get results from the blood so we just wait... The psych guy, Paul stopped in for a visit and that is always fun. Well, the doctors came in and said they had great news about the bone marrow biopsy that they did the week before. The told us that Alex's bone marrow cellularity was 40%. We were like, what? SO... apparently we are all born with 100% cellularity in our bone marrow and as we age we lose these cells. They killed all cells in Alex's bone marrow during the preparative regimen before the transplant. When they do a bone marrow biopsy they take out a certain amount of bone marrow and examine it for cellularity and also look at each cell to check for leukemia markers on those cells. The portion of bone marrow they took last week came back with a 40% cellularity growth (which is super fantastic!) and also there were NO leukemia markers on any of those cells. WOOOhooo! The doctors were even surprised with the amount of cellularity there was at this early date. They said it was fantastic news. And, obviously donor cells are working hard. YAY!
Alex has been throwing up quite often so that was the biggest concern that I had for the doctors this week. We talked about several things and they wanted to try a new drug that aides in the way the stomach released food into the intestines. They think that food is just sitting in the stomach too long and the natural process of releasing food is not quite working yet. So... incredible what they have a drug for. Hopefully this will do the trick and get things working like they should.
Another piece of great news were the blood counts:
WBC (white blood cells) - 3.7
Hct (red blood cells) - 31.3 (nice to see this number climbing)
PLTS (platelets) - 129 (this is almost the low end of normal which is amazing!)
ANC (the good stuff!) - 2.3 (fantastic news and IN the normal range!)
I want to thank everyone that came out to the blood drive! Thank you thank you! It's such an EASY way to give something that can save someone. I should have taken more photos... the one of Natasha and I giving together would have been great. She filled up a bag in seconds and they had to keep checking me to see if I was still bleeding. Thanks to Million Air for letting my mom set this up in the hangar there.
A rare photo of Alex and I :0)
My buddy Mike (looks like Lance doesn't he?)
And this crazy one is acting like it hurts... it doesn't :D
Thanks to Travis for coming out again! You are awesome!
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