Rosalind has a top up

This week I took Rosalind up to Kings in London. After tests and review by a couple of consultants they decided to give Ros the long awaited 'bone marrow top up'. This is more stem cells from the original donor, which had been kept on ice.
At the duly appointed hour a huge liquid nitrogen container arrived in outpatients. Ros had two injections up her temporary line to guard against infections and rejections. Then the transplant was removed from the liquid nitrogen, warned up in a special bath and then this 'transfusion' was given her. What was amazing was that it was only 10 mls - it hardly went half way down the tube! The nurse had to put a lot of saline mixture in afterwards to force it in.

Yes that is all of it in the picture!!. We met a lady who had a had a transplant a few days before Ros, and she had happily had two 'top-ups'.

We soon finished and wandered around John Lewis for a while, buying birthday presents for Isabel.