After eighteen days at Christ Hospital, Lauren is finally home resting at our parents house! She can not say enough about Christ and their wonderful staff! Plans to go home yesterday changed when she was told she had a low white blood cell count. Because she stayed an additional day, they ended up performing a spinal tap. There have been studies that show some transplant patients have contracted lymphoma in their spinal cord. As a preventive measure they ended up taking some spinal fluid and injecting chemo in to her spine. As a result of this procedure, Lauren has a migrane headache. Still, she is glad to be home!
Lauren's biopsy showed markers for Plasmablastic Lymphoma. This is a rare type of Lymphoma and she doesn't have the traditional symptoms of it. The doctor is getting a second opinion from Dr. Lee Nadler at the DANA-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA.
This week, Lauren will have off in order to rest and become stronger before she starts her chemo treatments. The week of the 12th, she will return to Christ Hospital for her first round. She will stay over night just to be initially monitored. She will then receive chemo every three weeks for six treatments. Again, this is the plan for now, it can change depending on how she reacts to the chemotherapy.
Thank you so much for all of your sweet, encouraging comments and letters! We all really appreciate them!
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank you for all the updates! So glad to hear that she is at home and can continue as outpatient!
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