Heidi in May at her 50th bday party

Heidi in May at her 50th bday party
The odds-on favorite

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Day 17 delivers preliminary bone marrow biopsy results


Near the end of a 55-minute walk

The bone marrow biopsy taken yesterday produced some results today.  And the result is . . . unclear.  Several doctors looked at it under a microscope and saw no cells, which is good.  That means the poison did its job and killed everything it was supposed to kill.  But the machine-counted result was not so definitive.  It found blasts.  According to the doc, that could mean bad blasts or it could mean normal blasts.  The only thing that is clear is that Heidi is having a blast.

The plan is not to keep examining that sample.  Apparently it has given up all the information it has.  The plan is to do nothing.  Well, nothing for a week.  No more chemotherapy—just keep recovering.  Next week they will extract bone marrow again and test again.  That will be the sixth so far.  By next week those pesky blasts should multiply and show their true color more clearly.   For now we hang out and wait.

Nearer to the end of a 55-minute walk




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