Over the last two weeks I’ve received five transfusions total, three last week and two this week.
At my most recent visit the doctor explained to me we’re approaching “crunch time,” if my body is responding to the ATG my blood counts should move closer to normal over the next few weeks.
A basketball coach once told [...]
Last Tuesday I received three transfusions—-two units of platelets and one unit of red blood cells. It’s still too early to tell if the ATG is working. The first round of treatment was 41 days ago, as mentioned before 120 days is generally when the doctors have an idea of the serum’s effectiveness.
I hate to bring up the past, but here’s a story. Three weeks ago, before I knew my brother was not a match, before I underwent the ATG treatment, I met with the bone marrow transplant team. Standard procedure. Thought being, if my brother is a match we have all the semantics out of the [...]
I’m home.
ATG/horse serum completed, moving onto the next chapter. The doctors tell me we’ll have a good idea if the immunosupressive treatment is working in 120 days from first day of treatment, Tuesday, July 14.
Fours days down 116 to go…
Take home message from five days in a hospital: Confinement sucks, never stop appreciating the simple [...]
I started a new treatment on Tueday, July 14th at 2:30am, the same treatment a reader addressed last week, below is a snippet of her comment.
I have aplastic anemia, but am 4 yrs in “remission” after ATG & Cyclosporin treatment. My sister is a bone marrow match, but the immunosuppressive therapy worked for me. Diagnosed at 16, now [...]
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