Changing Appointments

Day 106

The pace is definitely picking up. Our schedule at MDA has been quickly filled by several appointments with the stem cell clinic. Monday we have to go and sign the papers agreeing to the transplant. Then later in the week we have Doctor's appointments and classes on the procedure.

Next Monday Ann has to go in to have her CVC line replaced with a different larger one. Apparently the double line CVC she currently has is OK to use for leukemia patients, but not for transplant patients. Then later she will go in for apheresis, where they attempt to harvest her own stem cells for use in case there is a problem with the ones from the cords engrafting.

So it is official Ann is becoming a stem cell transplant patient. We are drawing to close the phase of her treatment where her disease was simply being managed, to one where there is a real hope for a cure.

I can't begin to tell everyone how excited and scared at the same time, we are.