Bill is back on this amazing machine! His white count is up nicely and platelets holding their own! His calcium and magnesium are down so they add those into the mix of blood returning to his body. They are estimating he will be able to collect about 2.5 million today. Yesterday he collected almost double the estimate so if that holds true he should be able to collect about 5 million today. They give us a new plan everyday. Today's plan is....... be on the machine just under 4 hours. His body is retaining fluids again. The good news with that is the more you weigh the faster they can run the machine so less time connected. After that we go back to the clinic for another shot of mozabil (they can only give him a total of 4, this will be #3) and tonight 3 more injections of neupogen. Keeping our fingers crossed he will be able to collect close to the 20 million by Friday. If not they will need to admit him into the hospital and keep going.
Today we met Mike. He is staying at the same place we are and his wife, Kay, received her transplant 14 days ago and doing so well they may be able to return home in a few days. He was very encouraging about the transplant process and experience. She was one of the very fortunate ones who was able to collect 53 million stem cells her very first day of harvesting! All of us who know and love Bill know he likes to take his sweet time with everything he does!!!!! But that is ok he will get there eventually! We have a bet going on the number of cells collected today. The winner gets to choose what we have for dinner tonight! I will post later what the actual collected count is! Please know how very much we continue to appreciate every one's good thoughts and prayers!!!!! Love Kay and Bill
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