Hello Everyone. I know it has been a long time since our last report. Dad has been up and down. Here is the story in a nutshell.
After the stem cell transplant they suppress dad's immunity with drugs. They do this so that the NEW stem cells can grow. Unfortunately, every time they try to take dad off these drugs he gets a Graft-Vs-Host Disease. His body just doesn't want to kindly accept the new stem cells. Dad has never kindly accepted much so that's no surprise. So, they keep him on the drugs which allow every single flea bitten virus, bacteria or over all "no thank you" floating around to attack him.
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| It's a game of chess. There truly is no other way to put it. |
Dad unfortunately seems to catch "no thank you's" about as well as he catches fish. He can catch a fish people. He was checked into Stanford AGAIN last Friday. I went to see him yesterday and he was in high spirits. He seemed to be pulling out pretty well and promised to be home for my birthday on Saturday.
My mom just called me and told me that dad is being transferred to the ICU at Stanford. His kidneys are not kidney-ing...oh it's a word. They need to figure this out. I will update you as more news comes in. Thank you for your patience on my blogging. I can give you a pile of excuses but dad would just say for me to go get the dictionary and look up where sympathy is located. Right, well if you haven't heard that Ed-ism I will save it for later.
More soon.
