Our son Matt wins the contest to find a mnemonic for Walter
Reed: a wooden replica of a tiny bird: a wren mimic (WReNMiMiC).
David slept quite a bit until late afternoon, received blood
and plasma through his port, and hosted a raft of doctors and med students and
nurses. Dr. Wanko expects him to start the downhill part of this chemo cycle
and hit bottom in about two weeks. They will decide on further treatment when
they get the final lab results on the bone marrow biopsy.
In other news, today
it finally felt like I had driven seven hours south of Lexington. Sunny, blue
skies, high 64°. I walked to the CVS in Bethesda center; it felt wonderful to
leave my coat at home. Unfortunately, just as the weather turns, David is
confined to the unit, since he is getting neutropenic, i.e. possessing an
abnormally low white blood cell count and thus susceptible to infection. The
chemo is killing off the leukemic white blood cells, but also every other type,
hence the intravenous blood transfusions, and antibiotic, anti-fungal, and anti-viral
medication.
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