Hooked up to the stem-cell collector machine (apheresis).
The blood circulating through the apheresis machine.
The collected bone-marrow stem-cells (and other stuff).Today they collected the bone-marrow stem-cells. They need to collect between 5 and 10 million cells. Ryan's levels are up high enough (to a 30 today!) that they may be able to get enough with just today's visit but we won't know until later today. The Apheresis room looks like it's in a converted stock room but oh, well. It took about 4 hours and now they are giving him platelets again. He's a bit nauseous right now but not bad. All went very well. After they have enough I won't have to give him the injections anymore- yippee!
Sorry about the nausea! I have had stomache sickness and nausea the past couple of days and I think there is nothing worse. I hope it is gone for you! I hope they got enough cells today and hope you had something to do during that 4 hours!
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