Our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the incredible medical team at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance as they took care of me for this past month. We learned much about my Mantle Cell Lymphoma and Colitis. We’ll be continuing my care as traditional chemotherapy once we return to Kaiser-Permanente.
Today is our last visit to the clinic and our last day in Seattle. We’ll be flying back home to Virginia tomorrow.
Once home again on Wednesday evening, we have a busy remainder of this week:
On Thursday, I need to see a gastroenterologist about radiation-induced Colitis as identified by my last full-body CT scan, and evidenced by my persistent abdominal cramps with painful bathroom visits. I’ll likely need a colonoscopy and its expected that I’ll probably be on antibiotics and Prednisone for the treatment of it.
On Friday, my traditional chemotherapy resumes. We’ll be spending the day at Kaiser-Permanente in the Oncology Infusion clinic as I resume R2 (Rituxan/Revlimid) for the treatment of my Mantle Cell Lymphoma. We’ll be following up to see if a Donor Leukocyte Infusion (DLI) is possible, if my original Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) donor agrees to make additional blood donations.
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Wishing you safe travels, strength and stamina and a full recovery!
Thanks, Aunt Jane!
Vicky and I ate well for breakfast and lunch today. I’m “fasting” now (very light meals, just enough to take my medications tonight and tomorrow) so that my radiation-induced Colitis doesn’t give me hardship during our 5-hour flight from Seattle-Tacoma to Dulles. I’ll still need to get up and move around a couple of times during the flight since DVT (deep vein thrombosis) is still a concern.
I’m hoping these recent snows don’t impact or postpone our flight. We’re leaving 3-4 hours earlier despite being only 20 minutes away from SEA-TAC. Every time it snows in the city, Seattle gets snarled and there’s accidents on I-5.
Would love to say that everything went smoothly and we’re back home again by tomorrow evening. Thank you so much for your love and support through all this!