You know someone has been in the hospital too long when they dream about new concoctions they can create using the hospital low microbial diet menu items to make something yummy. The newest creation is a jello salad. Van ordered two orange jellos, whip topping and mandarin oranges to mix together for a wonderful jello salad tonight. He’s figured out three other things like homemade burritos, hot fudge sundae, cheese fries and who knows what else he’ll think up. I think it is time to go home.
We also found out a few things about our Donor. He has A+ blood and Van has AB+ blood which will be easy to transfer. He is in his thirties, male and lives in the United States. After the transplant the recipient of the new stem cells could possibly take on some of the same characteristics of the donor. Such as - hair line, hair color and texture or the lack thereof. So we are hoping for someone straight out of GQ magazine.
We are still in the hospital because the Methotrexate levels dropped from yesterday which was 0.08 to a 0.03 and they have to be 0.02 before they will let us go home. Yesterday, his levels actually went up which was weird. So hopefully tomorrow they will be low enough to go home. He is feeling extremely well and is ready to conquer the world. But his blood counts will continue to drop for the next week before they starts bouncing back, so his days of feeling good could be short lived.
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Mike has AB+ blood type, thats really interesting.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to have been "away" for so long--lots of drama going on at our school--but it's great to read your postings and have them be less full of awful side effects--CONGRATS on having Round 2 of chemo over! I think Van should already be in GQ, so imagine what could happen if the donor is a fellow "(insert word here that Wendy is allowed to say but would be embarrassing if I said it =)"!
ReplyDeleteYou're both always in my prayers, as are your family members and all those that are helping you and yours.
Love and HUGS,
Libby