Well I know most of you have been waiting anxiously, like us, to find out the results to Connie's bone marrow biopsy. Well unfortunately it was not the results that we wanted. The biopsy showed that 20% of Connie's remaining cells (which are very few at this point due to the two round of chemo) are still leukemic.
So what does this mean. Well it means the fight continues, but it will probably continue at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. The first step is to get her white blood cell count back up so she can go home from the hospital for a little while. As you can imagine having your world confined to the 7th floor of a hospital can get very old very fast. So physically and mentally they need to give her a break from the treatment and let her go home. It is going to take at least a week or two to get her counts back up so she can go home, then she may only be home for a few days before heading down to the Cancer Care Alliance, but really anytime at home is good at this point. Although Connie was very disappointed when she heard the numbers were not down, just hearing that she is able to go home for a little bit was a big relief to her.
At this point we do not know what the next treatment will be, but I imagine we will be finding out in the the next couple weeks. As you can imagine Connie and all of us are very disappointed with the news. But as I said the fight continues and I know she is going to beat this thing, it is just going to take a bit longer than we wanted.
Please keep Connie, Ron, Steven and David in your thoughts and prayers.
Stacie
Stace- thank you for keeping us updated. We will continue praying... Hugs to you and Connie and the rest of the family.
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Yes, thank you Stacie for keeping us posted. Definitely not what I was hoping to hear, but I still believe Connie got that temperature and saw a different doctor than her usual one, who ran all those tests and caught this early for a reason. I know she's going to beat this, it's just hard that she's having to go through this and the treatments haven't gotten rid of all the bad cells yet. We're praying for all of us.
ReplyDeleteWe're disappointed that this thing is taking it's own sweet time in getting out of Dodge. Our prayers and hearts are with you all always. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed! Harold and Cheryl (Amorah)
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