The last few days were filled with good visits, starting with Bari (Carol’s sweetest Yoga teacher) who drove in from Tampa to spend some time with Carol. They ran into town for some fun and ended up walking on Siesta Beach.
Later that day, our long time friends from Pennsylvania, Marty and Vera, took a ride from Sanibel (there for business of course) and visited us for a wonderful evening, sharing stories, laughs, music and Thai food.
Today, Carol’s Aunt Judy and Uncle Teddy arrived for a visit, so we got to catch up with them and will no doubt be sharing a few outings with them in the next week while they're here.
Now back to Carol’s progress.
Fortunately the change in the medication to fight the discomfort of this latest chemotherapy drug calmed down after all. Only the first day of chemotherapy caused some discomfort (nausea +), but when Dr. Chu changed her to a different anti-nausea medication, no more uncomfortable symptoms from the Vidaza were felt.
With 7 days of the Vidaza treatment completed today, Carol will need to wait a few weeks to have another bone morrow biopsy. A few days after that we will learn how the Vidaza treatment contributed to suppressing the Leukemia blast cells, so Carol can be cleared for a transfusion of her donor's lymphocytes. We hope to find out this Monday, December 13th if they were able to contact her and if she has agreed to donate these cells. Lymphocytes would then be harvested in Europe from the original donor and flown to the US/Moffitt to be infused into Carol’s blood stream.
For now Carol will continue with the same routine, visiting her SRQ doctor on Thursdays and the Moffitt doctor on Mondays.
More updates soon.
Thank you.
Jaime
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