Tag: cancer
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BMT Consult #1 – Jefferson University Hospital
On March 11, we drove out to meet with Dr. Wagner at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia for a bone marrow transplant (BMT) consultation. The first thing that happened was George had his blood drawn, of course. This was done to get George’s blood type and to check for anti-HLA antibodies. If the antibody count…
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A New Dilemma
In my last post, I wrote about our dilemma of having to make the decision to meet with a bone marrow transplant team at a new hospital we had never heard of, or waiting almost two months to meet with the team at UPenn, our first choice of hospitals. We ended up choosing the new…
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The Dilemma
During the first hospitalization, George had the bone marrow biopsy to get the initial diagnosis of AML and then we had to wait a couple more weeks for the “molecular” data to come back. That would show which actual mutations on his chromosomes were linked to the onset of his leukemia. The news we got…
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The Leg, Part Deux?
George has a wound/stitches on the back of his leg from the surgery he underwent before starting chemo. It is the reason he has been staying in the hospital rather than going home after the 5 days of chemo as originally planned. Everything was going well. His leg did hurt a bit, which was to…
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Going home
On February 1, we got the good news that George was going to be discharged and could go home! It was a long month of driving back and forth to Camden for me and a long month being away from home for George. At first, George was a little scared to leave the hospital because…
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The Leg
Everything was going well until January 12, the second to last day of chemo. George awoke during the night to what he thought was the world’s worst Charlie horse. He couldn’t get any relief at all and for the next two weeks, the pain in his leg was the absolute bane of his existence. He…
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Biopsy = Diagnosis
On Monday, January 3 George finally underwent his bone marrow biopsy. They took him down to intervention radiology for the procedure. George was so happy about that because normally, the procedure is done bedside with just a local anesthesia. He got to have his done while sedated, which means he didn’t feel a thing! The…
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Happy New Year in the Hospital
George was admitted to the hospital on December 30, which was a Thursday. He was told by the attending oncologist that like his doctors, they suspected leukemia. A bone marrow biopsy would be needed to make an official diagnosis. Unfortunately, since it was the New Year holiday weekend and the lab would be closed all…
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The Bombshell
In late December 2021, my husband George finally decided to go and see his doctor. For a couple of weeks at least, he had been finding himself short of breath after performing simple tasks and he had trouble walking around the track on base without getting seriously winded. He thought maybe he had a respiratory…
Diagnosis: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). A Journey 