Sandi's Doctor Day--Update

This has been a long day and Sandi has had a serious setback. How major a setback this will be, we don't know yet. Sandi has been admitted to Medical City Dallas so they can run tests. The belief is she has pneumonia at an early stage. Her oxygen saturation level in the cancer doctor's office was 77 on one machine and 72 on another. They did an x-ray of her chest and there is what appears to be fluid in the base of both lungs. Lots of tests are planned to determine what is going on including a full body CT scan. She also will be getting a blood transfusion as well as additional antibiotics.


Of course, for us, this fluid in the lungs deal is very scary as this is how her cancer first presented in November 2011. That fluid in the lungs got so bad she was hospitalized, the right lung collapsed, and there were all sort of complications. That also led them to start looking for what was causing the fluid and that ultimately led them to discover and diagnose her two forms of non hodgkins lymphomas.


So, we have been down this road before and are not happy this has happened. Assuming it does turn out to be pneumonia they will have to determine what type it is and how best to treat it with everything else she is dealing with post stem cell transplant wise. While her blood work showed slight improvement, that has been far overshadowed by this new problem.


More as I know it.....