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- BMT completed 20th March 2014Just to update you, Mum is doing really well... she is walking again, all be it with a walker but its improving all the time.When she came home, she was only able to walk say 10 meters assisted, now she spends more time...
- Seems like there are a lot of new people in the last couple of weeks (was the group highlighted somewhere ? ) Whilst we all never really wanted to find a group in relation to AML, just would like to welcome everyone ;)We all have journeys, everyone...
- Sorry for the lack of updates just to let you know we are home, have been for the last week.Thought we would have been home beginning of June but end of July is close enoughMum is making great progress with her rehab... when she got home she took 4...
- Sorry for being a bit of a lurker the last couple of weeks.As you know mum had her BMT in March, she is now past her 100 days and as far as the "transplant" has gone she is great :) She is still in hospital, and as we like to joke she is doing...
- So a brief update. Mums Fludarabine Toxicity has been about the same for the last 2 weeks.Currently she is unable to walk, and has limited vision, she has been in hospital for approx. 4 weeks. All the tests under the sun have been completed and this...
- Sorry about the delay, still trying to really see what we can be doing.... Doctors don't seem to think they can do anything but "wait it out"... Mum is obviously concerned and worried. Eye sight appears to be getting worse, leg numbness appears to...
- I guess I am just looking for a little reassurance.Mums legs are getting worse not better, to the point that she is bed ridden, the first time since she was originally diagnosed in April 2013. The doctors are doing ever test under the sun, and...
- So spoke with Mum last night and she advised that the feeling she is having in her legs / feet is progressively getting worse, to the point where she said she may have to get a wheelchair.I told her immediately to call her BMT Dr and tell him, she...
- Hi All just thought I would put a little update out there :) Mum is now day +46 things are going pretty well, nothing too painful or "illness wise" Her numbers are HB 111 WBC 5.27 Platelets 138 Neutrophils 3.3 so everything has jumped back quite...
- Hi All, firstly letting you know Mum is out of hospital and living in the place we have rented in the city until her 6 weeks are up. Mum has been having problems with eating. She is coping with the cornflakes in the morning and then a toasted...
- Sooo one last hurdle has been jumped and Mum was admitted yesterday for the countdown of her BMT.She is pretty impressed so far as she has been given her BMT diary and everything that happens each day for at least the next 10 days and then the 14...
- Mum was booked in for her BMT to start on Monday the 10th of March...Last week she had a skin infection around the mastectomy wound due to the lymph nodes being removed. She went into hospital for intravenous antibotics for 5 days which apart from...
- Firstly thank you everyone for your help in 2013, 2014 will be 100 times better as there are only positive thoughts not negative coming from this little duck. I don't prey but I can only give positive to you all.Soooooo whats been happening, Mum had...
- Hi All, have not been around much lately with much of an update as things have been all good. Mum finished her three rounds of treatment at the end of July and her blood figures have been good since :) Now she has to make the decision on a BMT. They...
- Just thought I would share our most recent blood results :) Mum has been home now (her actual home not just temp accommodation during treatment due to living in the country) for 2 weeks now and 8 weeks since last consolidation chemo. Her blood work...