Cancer so far
It has been three weeks since my 100 day’s after last hospital stay where I was CT and PETA scanned. All is fine. I had avoided writing or vloging about it cause I was just glad it was over and didn’t want to think about it. I had what is called a stem cell transplant. The first thing that was done is a couple hours of outpatient chemotherapy to stimulate bone marrow into the blood and for a week I did special shots to help it along. I was then admitted into the hospital where they extracted my blood with what I can describe as a kidney dialysis machine that separates the marrow from the blood. They then froze this concoction with preservatives in cryogenic temperatures. I then go through, not four days of chemo like I have all along, but seven days worth. This chemo was the hardest to deal with cause you are brought to the brink of death with no resistance to germs. The bone marrow is thawed and given back intravenously. It smells like cream corn because of the preservatives and that smell permeates from you for a few days. I slowly got better but was feverish and had the worst diarrhea since I had PCP pneumonia in ‘97. I was lucky and got out of the hospital in two weeks instead of the three and a half to four weeks that was predicted. I was nauseous for a month after that but made it by with plenty of generic ensure protein drinks. I now have 950 T-Cells which is a far cry from the 450 I had before I had cancer and is about average for a person with AIDS I guess. It is like my system was rebooted like a computer.
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