Tag: chemo
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Friday the 13th
For the last few days, concern has been increasing over the fact that George’s white blood cell count hasn’t started going back up after this last round of chemo. Dr Ghimire expressed his concern on the phone when he called earlier this week to discuss the results of the blood work George had on the…
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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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Induction
Once George received his official diagnosis, there was a flurry of activity. Dr. Behrens wanted to start treatment immediately and so did we! The PICC line team came in and inserted the PICC line into George’s arm where he would receive his chemotherapy regiment. This first round of chemotherapy was called the induction phase. Dr.…
Diagnosis: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). A Journey 