My pessimism paid off.....Lucca will get to home tonight. After her chemo she will receive a blood transfusion because her hemoglobin dropped some more but they feel good about her going home. Yay! She continues to be in good spirits for the most part just slightly more fussy and tired but that's to be expected, right?!When I spoke with the Dr. Today she told me the plan for her next round of chemo. It will start around the 31st or 1st. We will be at Riley for that round. She will receive the same two chemo medicines over five days again. While we are there she will have a small surgery to put in a double central line which should result in no more all day poking sessions for her. Which will be great. The negative of this will be her having to be put under. I hate that part.After that week we will get to go home as long as she responds well to the chemo again. Once home her white blood cell count will be monitored closely and once they are at a certain point we will return to Riley for her stem cell collection. What will happen is she will be connected to two IV's and in one line they will take blood out and filter out the white blood cells and give her back the rest of the blood through the other line. These cells will be saved and then when needed given back to her. She will be receiving shots to help her bone marrow produce more cells at a faster rate so that collecting them won't hurt her. This is the stem cell collection. Since we don't know when her counts will be where they need to be for this to happen there is no specific date on when it will take place, just some time after the next round of chemo when her body is ready. After that her counts will again be monitored and when they are where they need to be she will get her third round of chemo. When we are down at Riley during this time they are also planning to do more scans to see what that tumor looks like at this point so they can decide about surgery.So that is the next month in a half in a nut shell for us. Of course things can change but at least we have an idea of what is to come......and today we get to get out of here!
Topic: Lucca will start her Stem cell transplant & it could kill her (Read 18370 times)
