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Signs of engraftment?

Hi all, We had the good news today (16 days after the transplant) that Roger is starting to produce small numbers of white blood cells and neutrophils (the kind of WBCs most important for fighting in… more →

Lifegraft: Notes on a Stem Cell Transplant

Day 51 Update — 4 comments

treatingrhys wrote 1 month ago: This was going to be the day 50 update but its taken me so long to write it that we’ve got eve … more →

Tags: Treatment Updates, GVHD., Total Parental Nutrition, YouTube, immunoglobin, Rice Krispies, Toonattik, rice milk, Cornflakes

Signs of engraftment? — 19 comments

RK wrote 2 months ago: Hi all, We had the good news today (16 days after the transplant) that Roger is starting to produce … more →

Tags: All, cyclosporine, dilaudid, engraftment, hypertension, oxycontin, tacrolimus

Day +12: Resting — 6 comments

RK wrote 2 months ago: (from Lisa) Hi Everybody, Things are fine here — the tests done over the past few days to che … more →

Tags: All, cool Washington State stuff, Cord Blood, cyclosporine, dilaudid, engraftment, Hutch School, hypertension, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Managing Mucositis--three days post transplant — 10 comments

RK wrote 2 months ago: (Update from Lisa)  Roger’s mucositis has worsened since we last wrote.  At first, he says, … more →

Tags: mucositis, transplant conditioning, University of Washington Medical Center

Unique Chap — 1 comment

treatingrhys wrote 2 months ago: As you might be aware from chatting with us and some of the earlier posts Rhys is a fairly rare char … more →

Tags: Treatment Updates, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, bone marrow transplant, neurofibromatosis, GVHD., Radiotherapy, hickman line, CT Scan, Infection

Total Body Irradiation — 11 comments

RK wrote 2 months ago: It’s Saturday evening in Seattle.  I’m three-quarters of the way through my course of … more →

Tags: All, Cord Blood, transplant conditioning, University of Washington Medical Center

Here we go — 17 comments

RK wrote 2 months ago: It’s Monday evening in Seattle, the skies are clearing after a long rainy spell, and I’ … more →

Tags: All, Cord Blood, Dasatinib, Hutch School, Hyper CVAD chemotherapy, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, transplant conditioning, University of Washington Medical Center

Delayed by a Cold Virus — 10 comments

RK wrote 3 months ago: So, all systems were go until last Friday afternoon when I felt the onset of some very mild hay fev … more →

Tags: All, coronavirus, Hyper CVAD chemotherapy, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, transplant conditioning, University of Washington Medical Center

Transplant Schedule Firming Up — 17 comments

RK wrote 3 months ago: Barring any unanticipated delays, I’ll start the conditioning regimen for my myeloablative st … more →

Tags: All, bone marrow biopsy, Cord Blood, Dasatinib, Hyper CVAD chemotherapy, MUGA Scan, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, transplant conditioning, University of Washington Medical Center

The Months Ahead

treatingrhys wrote 3 months ago: Following our chat with Rhys’ consultant in Bristol on Monday here is our understanding of the … more →

Tags: Treatment Updates, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, bone marrow transplant, Chemotherapy, Conditioning, Antibiotics, Campath, GVHD., graft vs host disease

Transplant days -3, -2: Total Body Irradiation (TBI) — 8 comments

Seth wrote 11 months ago: I think my anxiety leading up to this procedure was probably disproportionate to what the actual exp … more →

Tags: Cancer, Leukemia, AML, Moving towards transplant, The Walk, light the night, leukemia and lymphoma society, Radiation, TBI


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