My fever is a little lower today (only 100.5 so far). They have found an intestinal bacteria, one that usually gives diarrhea, but for some reason I have become very constipated, as revealed by the all knowing CT scan. They are hoping to send me home on Thursday. I have to be on flagyl for a week, which makes me nauseous, but perhaps will finally get me out of this particular woods. Between the immune suppression and graft vs. host, it is a hairy line. Add in drugs with serious side effects (and on to the drugs to deal with the side effects) - I will be so glad when this time period has passed. My platelets are on the rise again, so it looks like engraftment is going well. My white counts hit some good highs fighting infection, that I do not think my body was able to do for a long time. So this looks like the strong immune system I have needed. They will do a bone marrow extraction tomorrow, I think unnecessarily, but the reassurance will be nice.
Stay tuned in for the thrilling blow by blow accounts. I hope you are having wonderful summers. My brother Stephen is getting over shingles on his face, so I hope he feels better soon.
Anne
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Hang in there, Anne. There WILL be a day when this is a just dim memory of a past event.
We are continuing to hold you in our thoughts and prayers.
Love, Linda
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