Third Cord's a Charm! (Note from Mike)

Here is an update from "Blogger Mike"...

Gib:

Not a lot new since last week. We have had several roller-coaster days, with the first transplant fooling us into thinking it was achieving engraftment. White counts of 0.1 for a week, then up to 0.3 one day, then back to 0.1 the next, etc. The net of it is that they have concluded that the first transplant did not work.

They started prepping her Wed of this week for the next transplant. ATG is the primary preparatory regimen, which Gib describes wonderfully in his posting two days ago. (Click here to see his post.) Transplant will take place Monday.

She had been feeling a lot better over the last several days, now that the virus has been contained. But, she did have significant water gain last night (8 lbs worth overnight!), but that is an expected side effect of the ATG, and should be temporary.

She seems very positive about Monday. She is in pretty good shape (RE fevers, rashes etc) going into this. Her repeated gleeful mantra is "Third cord's a charm!" That's something we are all chanting around here.

Mike

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