November 4, 2011 - Welcomed News

More good news!  She had blood work yesterday and her blood work is still getting better!  In fact her AST level is now normal (39, 40 is normal), just barely but still normal.  Her AlkPhos is still high (206) and we did not get an updated LDH level.  She also had the second treatment of Rituximab and she had some drugs before to handle side effects and it went well, just 4 1/2 hours which is a lot better than the first treatment which had a few side effects and took about 9 hours!

The plan for next week to repeat blood tests and have another treatment.  She will also plan for another PET scan next week to see how much the cancer is being reduced and from where and meetings with transplant.  The doc had a few interesting lines yesterday.  The first was 'You are doing better than I thought you were going to'  and the second was 'You were blowing up in front of our eyes', needless to say we are pleased that she is responding to the drugs! There is also no question but that oncology is driving the bus now and transplant works around the appointments the oncology doc is scheduling.

So far things are going pretty well since she is getting better with the drugs, they are trying hard to keep real chemo out of the picture since chemo also damages the heart.  She is also on codeine for the pain she has been having which is having a good effect on the digestive issues she was having so that's  a win-win!

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