Hospital stay dates are changed

Well Stefan had his first round of Chemo on Sunday 12-04-05 afternoon. The second dose was given at 3:00 a.m. This round of Chemo is every other day twice a day. Six doses in all. We were informed that we had a little bit of information mixed up. Stefan will be going home by Friday or Saturday the latest this week after Chemo. While home he will be getting 3 injections shots daily at home to make the stem cells build up faster. Also will be on 3 different types of pills, antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal. Blood draws will be taken every other day. Don't forget that he is still taking that experimental drug Posaconazole 2 doses daily also. He will return to the hospital on the 19th of December (tentative)for harvesting the Stem Cells. This might take one or two days possibly three to collect anywhere from 5-10 million Stem Cells. Stem Cells are forced into the bloodstream from bone marrow by the Chemo & booster shots. They are collected from the blood. He will have a temporary port in the neck area put in to remove the stem cells from his blood. Port will be removed when they are done harvesting. This will be done on an Outpatient basis. He will be tested again in January 5-6, 2006. If counts are normal, port gets put in again and then the Stem Cells transplanting will start, after another round of chemo on January 9th (tentative date) . This should take one week of Chemo then Transplanting and watching him like a hawk for reactions for two weeks. This should be the END of it all, we will see.