He is HOME Monday

Well I finally got to bring Stefan back home today. I even had Stefciu & Maddie with me to pick up Stefan from the hospital. Blood draws are scheduled daily, reports are to be faxed in to Dr. Olga daily also. There is a bone marow biopsy scheduled for Nov 22,2005.

Numbers are good today... but will he get to go home?

Daniella called me this morning to say that Stefan's wbc was up to 5.5 this morning. That's the good news.

The bad news is that they found some more leukemic cells. He was waiting to speak with Dr. Olga, to figure out his next chemo schedule.

At this time, we don't have any information on anything. We don't know if he'll be released to go home today. We don't know if they plan on starting chemo immediately (today?) or at a later time. We don't know if he'll go home before returning for chemo. We don't know how this affects his future stem cell transplant. We don't know if this is that final round of chemo he'll need before the transplant, or if there will be more just before the transplant. Right now, we don't know much of anything.

It's been a frustrating week for Stefan - and on this miserable, gray Monday morning, the news that they found more leukemic cells probably did not do much to improve his mood.

I'll post when I hear any information. Thanks for checking in, and thanks for thinking higher wbc numbers for him!