Alex came for the last couple of hours of the infusion. In the bottom photo, you can see the big, fat tube is empty, as is the bag it feeds from. It ended around 4 p.m.Vlad was very tired through the ordeal, but did not have any symptoms of a reaction to the stem cells or any of the meds.
Since 4 p.m., he's developed some severe shivering, but does not have a fever. Jerusha says because he's been infused with a huge amount of liquids, his body is confused and dealing with it. Also, because all that fluid is room temperature, his body is trying to warm up, thus the shivering. His temperature is expected to spike, and it is creeping upwards. That is normal.
If all goes well, he should be fairly asymptomatic the next day or so until the chemo side effects catch up with him. It will be the usual, they say, nausea, hair loss and mouth sores.
He ate some borscht today and enjoyed it. He also ate a big breakfast. It's about 5 p.m. now and he's finally nodded off to sleep.
Mom's gotten a bunch of Christmas cards done while we've sat here. We took a brief tour of The Park on the 2nd floor and bought some stocking stuffers at the Volunteer Gift Shop.
We'll keep you posted.
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3 comments:
It sounds like everything went as well as could be expected. So thankful that you're making these updates so we can get progress reports without bugging you!
Love to you all.
Carole
Wow, the counts were pretty low I guess that’s desirable.
Happy to know things went well, my heart is with you both and thoughts courage.
You know I have 3 days off the week of Christmas (unpaid), will work for food.
To echo Carole great Blog!
Love and prayers,
Brother Bill
Stem cell therapy is set to become a major part of ATS, cancer, hearing loss treatments and of course plastic surgery. The need is however, is to ensure that these are stored in perfect condition before actually getting transplanted to the receiver’s body. This has made the industry of 'controlled rate freezers' to grow at a fast pace to keep up with the demand. I am doing a paper on ‘The Uses of Stem Cell Perseverance and the Techniques of Storing Them’ and found your post valuable.
Cynthia Beattie Mcgill
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