Chemo No Go

June 25

I was supposed to start the next round of chemotherapy today. It's called 'consolidation', as it is meant to maintain the levels that we got to after the major chemo (called 'induction') that we did all through the month of May in the hospital. However, as my white blood cell counts, and particualr my neutrophils, are still very low, at the last minute they decided to postpone the chemo, and do another bone marrow biopsy instead.

The bone marrow biopsy went fine, as they were only going for the aspirate - the fluid part containing the developing blood cells. We had to wait a couple of hours though, as it was not originally scheduled and we had to wait until all the other procedures were finished.

Unfortunatley, this will probably push the chemo out by a couple of weeks. We need six consecutive days for the consolidation chemo, so it has to start on a Monday and end on Saturday with in-home care to disconnect the chemo pump. But next Monday is a holiday (for the non-canucks it's Canada Day) so it seems we wont be starting until July 9th. If only the bone marrow biopsy could have been done last week... Oh well. We takes it as it comes.