Monday

I am feeling like an unreliable source of information because what I am going to relate is completely opposite of what I've been relating the past couple of days. I swear I am not making this stuff up. I sometimes think the Doctors make stuff up, but I promise that I'm not.

We should know more information this evening, but at this point the doctors think that Dad does have stage 2 GVHD (on a scale of 1-4, one is the best). They also are confused because his platelets have returned to normal and if he had relapsed that wouldn't be happening. To coincide with this, he has no blasts in his bloodwork (remember this is peripheral blood, not bone marrow).

From what we could gather, it seems they want to add two new medications to Dad's regimen to help with the GVHD and they are ordering another bone marrow biopsy to see what is going on in them there bones of his.

They are putting up a TPN bag tonight which is intraveneous nutrition and he needs magnesium and potassium, but no blood products. That is good.

I took away a lot of fuzzy feelings from this news because it's a complete 180 degrees from where they had us on Friday. I know we're far from in the clear, but I am cautiously optimistic once again.

I will know more after Dad's regular doctor stops in on rounds this evening.

Until then...