Friday, 28 October 2016

D+15 months - "News" *

In effect 'no news', the BM Biopsy last week consisted of bone and little else, no bone marrow so no result.  I'm not sure if this is a reprieve or merely a stay of execution.  The platelets and haemoglobin have both fallen a little further, the chimerism is the same.

Prof brought up the subject of a relapse again saying this was the thing he was concerned about. The result is a platelet transfusion and a repeat BM Aspirate and BM Biopsy next Tuesday.  If the Aspirate is successful their will be a preliminary result this time next week, if not a result in two weeks all being well assuming they find some bone marrow - more waiting - grrrr!

The steroids have been reduce yet again and the Prednisolone might be stopped in a week's time - a year after starting them.  That still leaves me taking the less toxic steroid, Budesonide.






Earlier this week we had two days in York with our granddaughter Eden and had a visit from Alexi & Lucy who came down from Newcastle for the evening.  We had a lovely night with them.









The previous evening we had supper with some old friends who had called in to see us a couple of times earlier in the year.  Eden kept us entertained all evening.

* Dire Straits - "Communique" track 2

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