Flexibility is the order of the day.....or week......or lifetime it seems! Things are still going well and Ed is feeling good, but the schedule has changed since last week. No surgeons available today at UCLA, so we're rescheduled for TOMORROW morning for the surgery to implant the chest port, then starting stem cell collection in the afternoon. Don't know yet how many days that will take, but we'll just go day-by-day with the flow until they have enough. Our coordinator told us that she's had a couple of patients recently who had to go through the pheresis 9 to 12 times before the collection was sufficient. Hopefully, Ed will be lucky and they will obtain the necessary cells within 3-5 collections, which is more typical. It's not a painful process, just time-consuming with the out-patient trips to UCLA each day for the collection process. We are still scheduled for him to be admitted on the 22nd for the conditioning chemo with the transplant to happen on the 28th, unless it takes longer to collect the adequate amount of cells.
We will be leaving for UCLA shortly and staying overnight at the Tiverton House so we can be on time for the early surgery Wednesday without having to fight rush-hour traffic in the morning. We can walk around Westwood tonight and maybe catch dinner and a movie.......since it is my birthday!
I'll let you know when Ed's out of surgery tomorrow and how the collection is going.
Happy Tuesday!
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