First chemo - follow-up

10:30pm, 9/8

Daniella called just now. Stefan finished the 15minute chemo drip; so far, no reactions or side effects, but of course, those negative side effects aren't immediate. They're headed down for a CAT scan right now - for his chest and lungs, I'm assuming to follow-up on the pneumonia. When he gets back from that, they will start the next dripline of chemo.

Daniella said his oncologist did not feel the need to redo the biopsy right now. She will look over results and reactions to chemo, and they may do another bone marrow biopsy after the first round of chemo. So there is good news in that. But we're still playing the waiting game, as far as getting results of the first biopsy. The biopsy results from Resurrection are apparently being reread by the team of oncologist at NMH, so we're waiting on what their opinions are - since they're the ones that are treating Stefan.

The only thing they've told Daniella so far is that yes, it is confirmed that he has AML, but they did not tell her what stage he has. So for those of you asking - I don't know yet. As soon as I hear, I'll post, because I know there's a wealth of information out there on AML, but it's stage specific - so I want to read up on this as much as I can too.

Daniella said she'd call me in the morning. Till I hear from her then, that's all the updates I've got to pass along.