Had a bit of a setback on the transplant process. Went through the 4 cycles of chemo (which was rougher this time than las). The blood tests at the end of the last cycle indicated that the chemo had done its job. There were only 5% myeloma cells in the blood which is a low enough to move on with the transplant. So we scheduled the pre transplant tests. One test was a bone marrow biopsy to confirm the blood numbers. Well low and behold the myeloma cell count from the biopsy was 40%, way to different from the blood work, and if correct is way too high for the transplant. That was 2 weeks ago.
So have scheduled another biopsy to see what the results are this time. If it continues high we will need to do more rounds of chemo (I hope not). Did the biopsy today and unexpectedly it was painless, the last one was quite painful. So more uncertainty and won't know for a couple of weeks where we go next.
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