This blog is to keep our family and friends informed on how things are going while we are at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences in Little Rock. Some people have asked why I choose to go all the way to Little Rock which is a 610 mile drive from home. UAMS has the Myeloma Institute of Research and Therapy. Here, they treat more people with Myeloma than any hospital in the world.
Monday, June 17--Still Not Ready To Go For Stem Cell Collection
My white cell count continued to ease up to 2.58. They did a test called Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Count. That test does not cost as much to do as the ProCOUNT and showed the stem cell count was not high enough to even do a ProCOUNT to determine if I was ready for apheresis. That means I did not get the ports changed out in preparation of going for stem cell collection. I continued to get the two injections of Neuopogen today. On the first round at this point, when my stem cell counts did not go up, they doubled the Neupogen injections. They have not said they would do that this time. White cell count 2.58, hemoglobin-8.3, platelets-87.