Phew…. finally all the chemo and conditioning stage are done. I must admit that the final chemo day was the toughest one, especially the part in which I had to balance the amount of fluid intake and output. 8 liters went in and they said they wouldn’t let me go home before I had an 8 liters of urine out of my body. Thank God everything went well.
The final chemo was commenced today (Apr 25) at exactly 9AM and we finished at 5.00 PM. But few minutes before I was discharged, my wife Linda, and kids were there already. O how much I missed them already.
Friday’s blood test showed that my HB was only at 7.9, doctor told me to come in the next day (Saturday, Apr 26) to get blood transfusion. So there I was again, on Saturday morning at 8.45AM, preparing myself for a ‘bloody business’. And sure enough, after drinking 750 cc of blood, I was energized enough to participate in a 10K run.
Doctor Teo came to see me before I went home, saying there might be a good chance that the transplant would take place on Monday (Apr 28 ) but that decision would have to wait until they see my blood test result on Monday morning. On Saturday, the white blood count was at 0.9. They’re hoping that by Monday morning it would have been lower to around 0.5 or 0.4, in which they feel good and ready for the transplant. I personally hope it would be lower than 0.4 by Monday, even though on the other side, I recognize the danger for my body being in that stage. But hey…. anything less than 0.5 is considered to be ZERO, so let’s just get it on.
It’s time to put on my mask … 24 hrs/day
