Tag: bone marrow
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Day +71
George saw Jackie, the bone marrow transplant guru, on Tuesday, Sept. 13. She said everything was looking good, but really emphasized the importance of eating and getting the proper amount of calories and protein to aid in his recovery. She said in the next coming weeks, the need for proper nutrition will increase because he…
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Day +60
Wow. It has been 60 days since George’s bone marrow transplant. So far, we have just been chugging along. George is working full time from his home office, getting his magnesium transfusions every day, home infusion team comes twice a week to draw labs, I’m making sure he eats even though he doesn’t want to.…
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Pity Party – Table for One
I try to keep my blog entries positive and informative, perhaps at times even avoiding my true thoughts and feelings. This is not one of those posts. This post is all about me and how I am feeling. How George’s leukemia has affected me. Warning: this may seem petty af in the large scope of…
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Day +43
It’s definitely been a minute since I posted an update. Mainly because things have been pretty uneventful for the past couple of weeks. Which, in some ways is a good thing! I continue to try to find food that George likes to eat. I think we have a good combination for breakfast….these egg frittatas are…
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Day +27
George has been home from the hospital for 10 days now…seems kind of hard to believe! Our days are pretty much the same. We get up and have coffee, which George says doesn’t taste like coffee. Then I take our dog out for a walk before it gets too hot, at about 6:45 or 7:00…
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First Days at Home
George was so happy to sleep in his own bed last night and awaken to his own coffee in his favorite mug! He said it still tasted different – like creamer in dark water, but hopefully his “chemo mouth” will improve with every passing day. At about 7:30 the evening of his homecoming, we received…
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Day +17 – HOME!
24 days after going into the hospital for his bone marrow transplant and 208 days after his first hospital admittance, George was discharged with new donor cells working hard to manufacture new blood cells! He was supposed to be released on day +16 because his counts were recovering so well! But, on Saturday he didn’t…
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We can see the light!
*light at the end of the tunnel: a long-awaited indication that a period of hardship or adversity is nearing an end. On Day +13, I went to visit George and he was lounging in his recliner, tired and still not feeling great. He still had mouth pain, but he said it wasn’t as bad. Not…
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Encouraging news!
Day +12 – the doctor came into George’s room and told him she was happy to see that his white blood cell counts were slowly going up! She said he was where they had hoped he would be at this point in his recovery. Whaat?? That’s fantastic news! I took it as a sign that…
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Day +10 and +11
When I walked into the hospital room Monday afternoon, I was shocked to see George working! He looked exhausted and was ready to knock off for the day, after somehow putting in 8 hours. He moved from the makeshift work station to his bed and I sat in a chair near by. I gave him…
Diagnosis: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). A Journey 