Hello to all my friends and followers, today is my second day in the hospital at the Brigham and I wanted to give everyone an update. Yesterday was check in day, most of the day was getting settled in my room and filling forms, shaking hands and finding drawers to unpack and store my draws.
Today my pre-transplant chemotherapy started, it was a full day of High-dose Melphalan Chemotherapy. My previous Chemotherapy was specifically targeting my myeloma cancer cells by interfering with the division of cancer cells, and when they can't divide, they die out. It selectively kills cells which are dividing rapidly, as cancer cells tend to do. The high-dose Melphalan is the most common chemotherapy regimen used to kill residual myeloma cells just before stem cell transplantation.
Tomorrow will be more of the same to prepare me for my stem cell transplantation on Thursday.
That’s all for now, Chemo Ken...
Note: The Red dogs had to be separated during my hospital stay. They are in good hands with relatives and very special friends. We did receive an e-mail today from “Murphy” asking us if she could stay with our friends for the rest of the summer; we suspect it’s because of her new boyfriend “Louie”.
Don’t forget to check my main blog for all my weekly updates & cartoons at: http://chemokenandthereddogs.blogspot.com/
Don’t forget to check my main blog for all my weekly updates & cartoons at: http://chemokenandthereddogs.blogspot.com/
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