I am finally home and Sandi is in the hospital at Medical City Dallas. Will be in several days.
The took some bone marrow from her left hip today to analyze and make sure she is a candidate for all this. If she isn't, there are some possible treatment options apparently, but the major hope here is that she is a candidate.
The plan is they will do another PET SCAN to get a baseline on her and
then start high dose chemotherapy. She will have a session this week
which will require her to be in the hospital so they can monitor it as
this is much more powerful than they used before. After an unknown
number of sessions of that---and assuming they can use her own bone
marrow stuff----once they get her back into a temporary remission they
will put her back in the hospital for three to four weeks. During that
time she will be in quarantine while they harvest her bone marrow, take
her own stem cells out of the bone marrow, and then inject her back with
her own treated stem cells.
A couple of weeks later they would start more chemo at a lower dose to
try and kill the cancer and not damage her new improved stem cells. The odds on all this working are very low and the risks of something going very badly wrong seem to be pretty high. Not what one wanted to hear as things are significantly worse than we had previously understood to this point. She has not given up and said for me to make sure that everyone knows she is still fighting and very grateful for your prayers and support.
They are doing some sort of emergency paperwork for Medicaid and Social
Security disability as well as helping with paperwork for various cancer
foundations that may---or may not---be able to financially assist us
with medical costs and do some sort of support services. All that will take time that we don't have, but they are trying to get the paperwork moving for us.
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This is scary just to read about, so I can imagine how you're feeling. Wish I had the right words, but I can't think of any. Keep fighting.
Thanks, Bill. Words fail me these days too.
Prayers for Sandi and for you. Cancer sucks and anyone who thinks it is easy is crazy!
As Bill said, one doesn't have the words. Just know that we keep you guys in our thoughts and prayers.
Two hours sleep and then awake again does not help.
And thank you Patty and Randy. Appreciate it very much.
Continued prayers for Sandi & you, Kevin. Will also be praying the paperwork goes through in record-breaking fashion.
Thank you, Kay. Just talked to her and she is not happy. Dinner was "nasty" last night, there were issues with her meds, and now she can't have anything as they are going to do a PET SCAN sometime today.
I've had two bone marrow transplants. The procedures
were awful but I survived. I hope for the best for your family.
Praying for you & your family.
Prayers and not giving up is a combination that leads to hope and increased chance for a good outcome.
Hang in there, both Sandi and you.
Kevin, please tell her she is in the prayers of so many of us. So are you, by the way, and Karl and Scott. This is hard on each of you. Sending love and blessings.
Thank you all. It is very hard--to say the least.
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