Exit Conference

     Eric had his Exit consultation with the Bone Marrow Clinic. First he had a clinic visit where they draw blood for labs and then a PA will come in to ask Eric how he is doing, go over medications, up coming doctor visits and check him out. Once we were done with that we met with Dr. Petersen and Greta(our coordinator) to discuss an exit strategy.  Eric will be on an anti-viral (prevents shingles) for a year, an anti-bacterial (pneumonia and lung protector) for about 3 months, and various multi-vitamin supplements for a long time.  The bone marrow was considered a success because Eric's marrow returned and is healthy.  He is still anemic; it appears kidney and liver function has not been harmed from the treatments.  All and all Dr. Peterson was very positive and happy that Eric reacted so well to the treatment.

   

The beautiful country of Fairview Canyon

     As for the question about what is happening with the cancer, well we don't really know yet.  They typically will do new scans after day 100 of transplant (today is about day 33), but said in my case they will recommend scans at day 60.  Eric will be transferred back to Dr. Chandramouli and has a meeting on Tuesday to talk about the new direction.  Eric will probably take Etopiside chemotherapy pills for maintenance to continue towards cure and to be cancer free.  Eric feels great, has been eating well, exercising and all in all in good health.

Eating snow for the first time.

atv ride

                                        Each Round of Chemo creates white in Eric's fingernails