Our big fear going to the clinic today was that Eric would have to have a four-hour whole blood transfusion. He has been on the borderline for two weeks, and if his hematocrit dropped even .1, we knew we would be held hostage at the bone marrow transplant clinic all day. Happily, his hematocrit went up .4, meaning we were in and out of the clinic in less than two hours AND his blood work is all headed in a positive direction now. Great news!
The doctors love to ask us if we are still getting out walking because they are so happy to see their star patient doing so well. On Saturday we did our first hour long walk, and it felt great! Eric had a dream that he was swimming, and was probably a little sad when he woke up to the reality that it is going to be a long time until he can swim. But boy can he walk!
When we were still in the hospital and each day seemed like an eternity, they told us that on Day 70 Eric would stop taking one of the preventative medications he has been on since the transplant. That seemed so far away and out of our reach. Today they told us that next week is the big day, and that on Day 100 they will start taking Eric off of more medicines. Day by day we may not see many differences, but week by week, and now month by month the improvements are amazing!
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