We had another long, but successful day yesterday. Troy only had to get poked twice, thanks to his great nurse, Diane. The Mayo Clinic gives outstanding patient care. She was one of the nurses from the day before, but she made sure this time to go as high as possible on his arm. Troy hates needles, so you can imagine how delighted he was. We received a call last night from the nurse coordinator confirming that they had enough stem cells. He collected over 4 million yesterday. In all, close to 11 million, the target was 8. We feel very fortunate because they were expecting 3-5 days. Some patients might only collect 500,000 a day. There was one man that had to go through it for 10 days. That is close to 60+ hours of lying on your back and of course still having to get the growth hormone shots. He came back to visit the nurses and talked with us. It was nice to see him doing so well. People change when they go through an experience like this. I think it's kind of like a military comradery.
Anyway, Troy got alot of rest yesterday and today we are going to venture out a bit to see cold Minnesota. We will go back to the Mayo on Friday to get blood work so they can check his creatine level, also they will discuss his treatment plan for the tricities. Then...we are homebound to get our babies, our doggie and to watch The Steelers kick some Cardinal bootie:) That will be a good welcome home!!!!
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