We’ve traveled through a relatively uneventful time in this illness. Beth mostly sleeps a lot, and takes in some blood every once in a while. Now we’ve got a little flurry of activity coming up, and we should learn some important things.
Beth’s hemoglobin level fell below the magical 8.5 level, to 8.4, and so she’ll be going in for another transfusion: type-and-cross-match today, and two units on Wednesday. One of the things that I’ve read on the CMML discussion boards is that there is a kind of deep-down body pain that you get – it’s the pain that prevented her from working back in June – and my thought is that 8.5 + two units will take her to a point at which she won’t have to deal with that for a while.
Then next Monday, August 22, she’ll begin Vidaza Cycle 3, and on the 23rd we’ll have our big Intake Meeting with Dr. James Rossetti from West Penn Hospital. (West Penn is an MDS Center of Excellence ).
We should find out a number of things that day, not least of which will be the status of the donor search, the course of treatment, schedules, and various other odds and ends, I’m sure.
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