No fevers now for 48 hours. So looks like we're potentially through Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS) stage. Doctors' talking about a possible discharge next week as she comes off antibiotics etc and we'll remain in Melbourne for follow up appointments with the local team and a bone marrow biopsy soon after day +28. Then we'll have a better idea how the treatment is working. At this stage everything looks normal and Lauren's french vocabulary is increasing.
Yesterday, she got a chance to be pushed around the hospital grounds in her wheelchair and will be doing the same again today.
So much easier than the bone marrow transplant of 2008!! I can see, if this treatment works (proven over a much longer period of time) how it could potentially replace bone marrow transplants, once proven, in time. Not to mention chemo as a treatment (barbaric treatment at that)......in the year 2080 they'll be teaching in medical school training "in 2016 they were poisoning patients with this thing called chemo to make them better!!" Smacks of the old barber shop carrying out surgery in the old days for us!! Thank goodness for research. Be nice to see Australian governments back Aussie research/researchers and lead in this important growth area. Seems we need someone with vision again like Victoria once had with Jeff Kennett.
Thursday 25 February 2016
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