Hi folks,
Your lovely host for this evenings entry is Caity, as our regular host wasn't feeling too well today. Unfortunately I'm not generally as witty or entertaining as Adam so I'll just work on the facts. As we all know from yesterdays entry today was a biggy with regards to the wonderful ministrations. As far as I can tell Adam actually handled the nasty bunny juice (ATG - an anti-rejection drug) quite well. If you can say having a rash, a fever, nausea, vomiting etc as fairing well. But if you read the list of side effects you'd realize this was quite well. The good news is that the protocol we had originally received from the hospital wasn't entirely accurate and today was the last day for the busulfan and fludarabine the two other chemos. In addition, the side effects from the ATG are supposed to be less on the second day.
All in all Adam's day consisted of lying in bed drifting between wakefulness and sleep, and regular trips to the washroom, with a little bit of vomiting. With each of the substances coming out of him being measured and recorded. For those of you that are aware of Adam's specimen quota theory, I believe that bone marrow transplant doctors would win hands down. For those of you that don't know the theory, it goes something like this:
Each month doctors have a contest to see who can collect the most urine samples, vials of blood, fecal samples, you get the picture. Each type of sample is given points based on it's invasiveness. The doctor who gets the most points wins the contest. We're not sure what the prize is but Adam figures it's a new Ferrari!!
Anyways I must be off to bed and hopefully tomorrow our regular host will be back.
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