Back in the slammer again

Well, it was kind of an eventful day. Mina Brigitta had yet another test today (pretty much every day this week and last), this time a brain MRI and another chest CT. She couldn't eat beforehand, and her 11:30 appointment didn't happen until 2:30. Keri was furious once again, because she had to drag Mina kicking and screaming from the park to get to the appointment on time.

Afterwards, Dr. Loh had planned to admit us to start another round of chemo. However, she was waiting for the numbers to come back from the bone marrow aspiration she ordered for Tuesday. Those numbers hadn't come in late afternoon, so Keri and the kids headed home to Berkeley and I left work to go home as well. But Dr. Loh had called before I got home -- the numbers had come back, and they're a bit sobering. Her cancerous cells went from 0.02% of white blood cells in her bone marrow to 0.7% in two weeks. She's still very much in remission, but this is a big change in a small period of time, and the 0.7% number would be enough to put her at higher risk of relapse even after the transplant. So instead of a lighter dose of chemo, she's now planning a more intensive dose to knock that number back a bit before the transplant. We'll get the scoop from her at 9 AM.

Mina Brigitta was asleep when I brought her into the hospital. She woke up briefly when Amber (fitting that she's the nurse tonight) was messing with her lines. We told her we were going to the hospital, and said goodbye everything in the house. She was very calm about it. Hopefully that means she understands and is OK with it, but I have a feeling she's going to expect to go back home tomorrow. We'll see how she reacts when she wakes up.