Day -1
Vicki is doing surprisingly well with the chemo which is to say, she's sick as a dog instead of sick as a pack of dogs. She's had quite a bit of tummy trouble and blinding headaches, not getting much food down the hatch, but the medical team is giving her piles of meds to help with the side effects. She's graduated from vicodin to hillbilly heroin (oxycontin), but that's not doing much for the headache so the next step is dilaudid. The big D puts her into loopy land. After I got back from Hawaii she was on dilaudid when she was petting my arm and sighing, "You're so pretty."
Transplant Monday
Tomorrow is day Zero. The stem cells harvested last month will be transfused back into Vicki's body where they will populate her bone marrow with healthy, cancer free cells.
Today there was a visitor to the hospital, a woman who had her transplant three years ago at this time. She brought small gifts for all the patients. One was a coffee mug full of goodies and the other was the hope for recovery.
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Well, I'm posting this on Day 0 and hoping all goes smoothly with the transplant. Not a day goes by that I don't think of you, Vicki, and say a little prayer for hope & healing!
Hugs,
Kathi (your fellow peer counselor)
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