Off to the
hospital again today. These trips are
horrible.
Typically, I need
to be ready sitting on a bench awaiting a call by 5am, but today it is 4:30 am. I then get ankle and wrist restraints, with a
waist chain, which my wrist restraints are chained to.
The trip to and
from the hospital is two hours each way, and the days tend to run twelve to
fourteen hours.
The lunches are
bag lunches which the prison makes the day before. For some reason they do not put the
sandwiches in plastic bags; therefore, the bread is hard and crusty.
Today they took
out a subsection of my blood to be manufactured into chimera cells for CAR
T-cell therapy.
This procedure
was first approved for mantle cell lymphoma in December 2020. I will be the first person to receive this at
UW Health. Lucky me.
It appears at
last Friday's hematology/oncology meeting it was decided to go ahead with the
CAR T-cell therapy even with the cancer within the CNS. Unless Jan, the gal who runs the transfusion
clinic, was misinformed.
According to Dr.
Pophali the CNS penetration will increase my chances for going into a coma.
They measured me
at 5 foot 7 3/8 inches. I continue to
shrink.
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