Cathi is in the hospital keeping a vigilant eye open for signs of improvement. They are there but do not come quickly or easily. This week has seen slow but steady improvement. The Sunday afternoon biopsy results came back empty or negative. Empty is good. That means no blast cells, which are leukemic, but also no bone marrow cells. This is what the two treatments of chemo are supposed to do, kill the Chloromas. Chloromas as you recall are concentrations of leukemic cells, and at the same time the type of chemo also kills the bone marrow. So it is a wait and see game. Wait until Walt's cells grow back into Cathi's marrow. To help with this she is starting shots of neupogen. The neupogen shots cause the bones to ache and the joints to have a little pain. Damn youngest kids they do great, but are always late bloomers.
Today her WBC rose to .3, which is higher than it has been all week but only cause for guarded optimism. The WBC will go up and down and take a while to recover, but we are past what the Dr's think is normal recovery. But much of what we have been through has not been normal, so we are buckled down and waiting for increases in WBC counts. Continued increase is a really really good thing.
The throwing up has lessened and little bits of food are staying down. Her esophagus is also healing and she is on less IV medications as the nurses switch the medications back over to pill form. Tonight she was able to celebrate Jodee's birthday with a chocolate cupcake. A cupcake that knew its place and stayed there. Jodee is a nurse on the floor and part of Cathi's fan club. Little happy dance....
Going home is the big news today. Dr Ganguly came in and said she can go home at any time she chooses. So she has decided that she is going home on Friday, and will tell Dr. Ganguly on Thursday morning. So again is back to the wipes and sanitizing at Cathi's house to get it ready for her.
Janet and Cathi had a wonderful visit this past weekend and there was much sorrow as they hugged and said good bye on Tuesday. Janet is a long time friend of Cathi's from England. Sad to see her leave, but we will look for her wisdoms on the Blog comments. Mari has taken over watch with Cathi and will be here until next Wednesday.
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It is Rusty time...
Janet, sorry to see you go. Had a great dinner and I hope we get to see you again soon to celebrate good health.
It was lovely to spend time with you last weekend - and catch up with some of your family.
Hope you're getting ready to go home today.
lots of love #2 GOT
Dear Cathi, I am gutting out my bathroom,I got the window open about 8 inches and drop the old tile out the window into the trash can.My new tub is 42"x72" and will hold 72 gals of water. Lowes is going to deliver the tub on the 26th of Sept.
I will have them put it in the living room, that way if this project should go on passed Christmas ,I can get a blow up Santa and put him in the tub for a holiday decoration . I hope you get home soon .Love and Kisses.
Nedra
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