Saturday, May 5, 2012

AML: Day 0, Happy Birthday

So all the nurses here called yesterday (may 4th) my new birthday. 

The day was pretty basic.  Just lots of meds and waiting.  I still get sick to my stomach every time I get up.   None of the meds seek to be making a difference.  I'm pretty comfortable if I just lay down or sit still.

About 3:00 they started me on premeds for the transplant.  Lots of fluids and more anti rejection stuff.  Most all goes in my IV. 

Roughly about 730 my cells shoes up.   More drugs, tylenol, Benedryl and hydrocodone.  All just to make sure there was no reaction to the cells. 

The infusion of the stem cells was very simple.  They use a gravity drip because they don't know what going through an IV machine would do to the cells. 

It cells only took about a half and hour.  I was told there were about 7 million cells.    Other then the Benedryl making me both sleepy and fidgity.   That passed in about an your and I also the night.   So far so good.  

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