Wednesday evening
Praise the Lord! THANK YOU LORD, THANK YOU! God is good and we give Him praise and thanks.
Good evening!
We are indeed very please, happy, delighted, excited, and all of those other adjectives that express joy. Dr. Lee this afternoon was also very happy as he told us that Marty's numbers were perfect (WBC 7.4 [normal 4 - 10.5] HGB 11.4 [normal 12.5 - 16] PLT. 216 [150 - 450] and that she is right where he wants her to be and is to be considered in remission. Praise the Lord! Thank you Lord, thank you!
Dr. Lee explained it to us this way. To have AML one has 10 to 12% blasts in their blood. Marty had 10% at the time of the first bone marrow biopsy. At the time of the second one (last week)she had 3%. This change is significant and consideres the AML is in remission. However there are still a fairly significant number of blasts in the blood so that is why there is the need for the consoladation treatment. Each one of the four treatments will lower the blasts that are now consideered 10 to the 9 by 2. So that by the end of the four treatments they will be 10 to 1. And that will be considered a full remission. There is no way to know or determine how long it will stay in this full remission - it could be a month or two or it could be years. Dr. Lee has told us of people who have gone 3 - 4 years and we have even heard of longer.
Also, when all of the above treatment is done Dr. Lee wants us to see the bone marrow transplant people again. So we will have to see.
Now for these "consoladation treatments". Marty will be back in St. V's for 6 to 7 days for each of them. She will receive the same chemo as before twice a day on the 1, 3, and 5 days. When she gets home she will feel pretty good for the first 4 to 5 days. Then the problems can occure. At that point her white blood count will be down to "0" and her platelets will be low. The chance that she will need blood and platelets at that time will be 100%. There will also be a 50/50 chance that she will get a temp. of 100.5 or higher and will have to go in St. V's for I V antibiotics. Of course, how all that goes will depend on how the infection responds to the antibiotics. Finally, Marty will begin to feel better and it will be time to do it all over again.
We are so happy and thankful that Marty does not have to go through the Remission Induction again and can move on to the consoladation. God is so good! We are just so grateful, becasue it is a stong indication that God still has more for her to do here on earth. Thank you Lord! We know that the next four months are not going to be easy either, but God has seen us through this first part which is so awesome and is a must for the second part to even take place. So thank you Lord.
Today, we thanked Dr. Lee for being open to God for the wisdom and guidance for Marty's treatment thus far and he said let's just thank God. So again thank you God!
We will be back tomorrow on the blog with room number and all down at St. V's because we are to be down there at 10am for her admisssion for the first treatment. We again thank all of you for your prayers, support, love and all during the last 3 months and certainly would appreciate your continued prayers, support, love, and all in the future.
Have a great day and God bless.
Marty and Jack
John 3:16
Praise the Lord! THANK YOU LORD, THANK YOU! God is good and we give Him praise and thanks.
Good evening!
We are indeed very please, happy, delighted, excited, and all of those other adjectives that express joy. Dr. Lee this afternoon was also very happy as he told us that Marty's numbers were perfect (WBC 7.4 [normal 4 - 10.5] HGB 11.4 [normal 12.5 - 16] PLT. 216 [150 - 450] and that she is right where he wants her to be and is to be considered in remission. Praise the Lord! Thank you Lord, thank you!
Dr. Lee explained it to us this way. To have AML one has 10 to 12% blasts in their blood. Marty had 10% at the time of the first bone marrow biopsy. At the time of the second one (last week)she had 3%. This change is significant and consideres the AML is in remission. However there are still a fairly significant number of blasts in the blood so that is why there is the need for the consoladation treatment. Each one of the four treatments will lower the blasts that are now consideered 10 to the 9 by 2. So that by the end of the four treatments they will be 10 to 1. And that will be considered a full remission. There is no way to know or determine how long it will stay in this full remission - it could be a month or two or it could be years. Dr. Lee has told us of people who have gone 3 - 4 years and we have even heard of longer.
Also, when all of the above treatment is done Dr. Lee wants us to see the bone marrow transplant people again. So we will have to see.
Now for these "consoladation treatments". Marty will be back in St. V's for 6 to 7 days for each of them. She will receive the same chemo as before twice a day on the 1, 3, and 5 days. When she gets home she will feel pretty good for the first 4 to 5 days. Then the problems can occure. At that point her white blood count will be down to "0" and her platelets will be low. The chance that she will need blood and platelets at that time will be 100%. There will also be a 50/50 chance that she will get a temp. of 100.5 or higher and will have to go in St. V's for I V antibiotics. Of course, how all that goes will depend on how the infection responds to the antibiotics. Finally, Marty will begin to feel better and it will be time to do it all over again.
We are so happy and thankful that Marty does not have to go through the Remission Induction again and can move on to the consoladation. God is so good! We are just so grateful, becasue it is a stong indication that God still has more for her to do here on earth. Thank you Lord! We know that the next four months are not going to be easy either, but God has seen us through this first part which is so awesome and is a must for the second part to even take place. So thank you Lord.
Today, we thanked Dr. Lee for being open to God for the wisdom and guidance for Marty's treatment thus far and he said let's just thank God. So again thank you God!
We will be back tomorrow on the blog with room number and all down at St. V's because we are to be down there at 10am for her admisssion for the first treatment. We again thank all of you for your prayers, support, love and all during the last 3 months and certainly would appreciate your continued prayers, support, love, and all in the future.
Have a great day and God bless.
Marty and Jack
John 3:16
posted by Jack | 8:16 PM
1 Comments:
I received a hug on your behalf, from your granddaughter at the "milestone" birthday party tonight! She was SO sweet and we had a good time. Thanks to Eric and Erin for taking the time to come - they are like part of the family, you know.
I told Eric tonight, that I bet you'd have an update here when I got home...Things certainly sound encouraging. Thinking of you as you take this next "step". Hugs... Diane and Mike
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