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This morning, Dr. Connelly told Leif that she and Dr. Meehan have determined that he did not respond to the RICE protocol. Therefore, he is going to go straight to the "hard" chemotherapy that precedes stem cell transplant, next week. We have decided the best place for him to be for that is Dartmouth, so we're headed over there almost immediately, as soon as they let him out of the hospital from this current infection - which will not be today.
The idea is that he will get the hard chemo, then go home for a few days until he gets a fever, which they expect to happen pretty quickly. Then he will check into Dartmouth again and be there until his blood counts come up and they can do the stem cell collection.
We will be calling on our local friends for practical help over the next 5-6 days, as we figure out what we need.
This morning, Dr. Connelly told Leif that she and Dr. Meehan have determined that he did not respond to the RICE protocol. Therefore, he is going to go straight to the "hard" chemotherapy that precedes stem cell transplant, next week. We have decided the best place for him to be for that is Dartmouth, so we're headed over there almost immediately, as soon as they let him out of the hospital from this current infection - which will not be today.
The idea is that he will get the hard chemo, then go home for a few days until he gets a fever, which they expect to happen pretty quickly. Then he will check into Dartmouth again and be there until his blood counts come up and they can do the stem cell collection.
We will be calling on our local friends for practical help over the next 5-6 days, as we figure out what we need.
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