Well the big day has come. During the day Ros felt pretty rough, but managed to do some exercises, and generally was less sick than yesterday
The lady Professor and her entourage came around, and changed a few of Ros's medications. Then we were told that the stem cells gad arrived. They are checked for quality and these, seemingly, are very good quality. More than was needed.
So at about 6:00 they started the process of giving her 240 mls of them. It was a surprisingly easy process, only being slightly more complex than say having an antibiotic through the Hickman line. The infusion only took about 45 minutes. A nurse stayed with her the whole time, all done in her ward lying in bed - going in and out of sleep. He said it had gone very well, with no side effects at all.
The stem cells will take about 7 days to all migrate into her bone marrow, after which they will stimulate them to get everything back to normal quickly
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