This is just going to be a quick up-date ( yeh, I know, famous last words and all… in my defense, writing is the ONLY time I can go on and on and on …you can stop reading, but you can’t shut me up! ).
This is gonna be a rough couple of weeks. He has about 8 more hours of this intense chemo (24 hours per day for 7 days). Of course, the goal is to kill the leukemia cells but the peripheral damage is that ALL bone marrow components also die. All of his blood components are plummeting … Red blood cells take oxygen to all parts of the body, white blood cells fight infection, platelets contain the clotting factor, etc. of course, the leukemia cells are those little buggers that just make a mess of everything. So he is being closely monitored! VERY closely monitored.
He had a CT scan this AM because he has had headaches . . . Negative for any problems! Yay!
Most likely he will be very ill for the next several days and we are requesting no visitors. We just can’t take any chance of him catching some strange bug. Thank you for respecting his wishes in this. I will let you all know when he is out of danger.
Thank you for your wonderful cards and notes. They are taped to the wall of his room and bring him lots of smiles.
More later! Linda
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