Thursday 21 August 2014

First stem cell top up planned

I had clinic yesterday and we found that my chimerism for T cells had gone down to 56%. Luckily my donor has agreed to provide more cells, so these will be harvested on 11th Sept before a fresh lot is given me on the 12th. This will be a small amount, and the rest will be put on ice for future use. Rosalind had 5 or 6 top ups.

The process is much easier for the donor, as we only need T cells which he will have lots of and can be harvested in minutes. And I need no preliminary chemo or anything - it is just like a small blood transfusion and should take 20 minutes or so.

Apart from that we are both feeling reasonably well

A friend, who is on azacitadine and doing well, went out for fish and chips at a local restaurant the other day. It was a beautiful location.
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Tomorrow the family is all going to the New Forest for a week's holiday.