Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Here One Day...

...back the next. Sitting in the apheresis chair for day two of stem cell collection. Got a Mozobil injection last night and will get another one tonight. Interesting thing about the Mozobil is that is wasn't FDA approved until last December and even though the folks in the clinic are familiar with the drug, they are very impressed with it's ability to do what it is supposed to do.

Big picture, there is a guy in here that was diagnosed with a form of myeloma and has been receiving treatment since 2003. At this point, his cancer is considered treatable, but not curable. He needs to collect 10 million stem cells. I need to collect 5 million. He started collection last month and then had a 3 week break and is back to collect the balance. I noted when I first saw him last week that he seemed glum and kept to himself. Today, he was smiling and somewhat conversational. At this very moment, he is lying in his chair and sleeping.

I hope he has more smiling days. He needs some Skippy friends like the ones I got (if you haven't read it, you HAVE to read Skippy's comment to yesterday's blog posting).

1 comment:

skippy said...

First! Awww, shucks.