Heidi came home Friday afternoon. Saturday we went to the mall and Target. Sunday we went to Costco. Yesterday she went to the grocery store. Today, the post office and bank. I was at work. So far lots of normal stuff and it feels right. Next week it's back to the hospital for consolidation chemotherapy. In that phase, she gets Cytarabine 3 times over 5 days. No Daunarubicin, so it's milder than last time. Should be in the hospital only a week, and then home to do normal stuff again. Ahhhhh, normal stuff. Much better than hospital stuff, despite the fact that the nurses and staff at UMC do so well to make the whole experience bearable.
If all goes right, we should be able to drive to S. Cal for Thanksgiving, but that depends on many things, including: 1) starting consolidation early next week, 2) getting out in ~1 week, 3) white counts recovering to road trip worthy in 1 subsequent week, 4) no sick relatives at Thanksgiving get-together.
The hat in the photo above used to belong to Oddjob before Heidi stole it and added a dumb flower. If I were Oddjob I'd be mad.
No test results on the possible HLA sibling match. They submitted their samples almost 2 weeks ago. Should know the end of this week or next. If they match it means we should be at Fred Hutchinson in Seattle probably in December. If the siblings don't match it will take another couple months to find a match in the bone marrow registry.
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| Walking the Neighborhood |
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| Cute hat number umpteen |
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