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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Buisness Day Three of Cancer and Mary-Elizabeth is Done with Treatment or so She Wishes

She is done.  She wants to just go home.  So for about 12 minutes we thought about packing up and heading back to Gonzaga.  I am getting a job over there where I can boss people around and she will return to school asking for some extra time for her projects. 



Then she took a shower and ate two pieces of Raisin Toast and visited with the Frol Cousins and all the assorted Medical People and they were appropriately abused. The Sierra's showed up with healing food  Burger Master.  What could be better?

I had a very concerning call from the Bone Marrow folks.  We are on a fast track to transplant.  In Cancer world we are months away.  6 weeks for her HLA typing, then match searching, then lots and lots of rounds of Chemo, Radiation, and then when she has no bone marrow at all, we give her someone else's bone marrow and wait 100 days.  THEN we have a year for it to grow up.  Oh, all of this for only $350,000 or so. 

Two years of medical treatment or a new house.... hard to choose.

Going for Midnight bacon....... at 1:00 am.

1 comment:

Nonna Madonna said...

OK we are wishing for remission, then marrow match, then healthy regrowth and underneath all of this, the strength and energy to stay connected with friends and the prospect of a real life someday. Got it. Meanwhile, remember to take care of yourself so you can be there for her. Good care of yourself. You're not all she's got, but you're the best thing going for her. I am so sorry you have to go through this again. So sad for you both. Big hug.