I was Chris' wife/caregiver & this is the medical blog I wrote during his treatment. Short history: dx in July 2010, no initial bone marrow involvement, did 5 rounds hyper-cvad protocol. Found out he is in relapse/refractory status with involvement in his chest, spleen, inguinal & throat lymph nodes, bone marrow, spine & brain in January 2011 when we went to MD Anderson for treatment. The two different rounds of chemo Chris got at MDA could not put him in remission; he died of leukemia/lymphoma on March 18th, 2011, an astonishing and horrific 8 months after his diagnosis.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

high counts and homeward bound!

hemoglobin:              8.7 (unchanged and above 8.0 is what they want to see)
platelets:                    234!  (yesterday was 153)
white blood cells:     6.3! (just 5 days ago he was only 0.3!)
neutrophils:                19! (up from 5 yesterday)

His white blood cell count is now also in "normal ranges"!  Woo hoo!  Just saw the Dr. and Chris gets to go home today!  It helps that Chris is a lot younger than most of the patients so his counts can bounce back a lot faster.
Now we just wait on his nurse, he's never had this one before.  Chris told me she came into his room about 5 minutes before I got here and tried to tell him he had radiation at 10:30 today?!  He had to say um, NO that is not me who is getting radiation lady, check your records.  On her way out she said "oh this order is for Martha not you".  Maybe she should check that before she goes into a patients room?!  
No matter we are heading home soon!
Back on Monday for start of round 3.

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