At Kristina’s request, we held off posting as she was feeling pretty miserable. She felt a ‘wee bit’ better on Monday, but the last couple of days have been rough. Monday night was ‘super rough’ and this morning (Wednesday) she was feeling absolutely miserable and requested no visitors.
All of this wasn’t totally unexpected. She had hoped to avoid some of the worse
impacts of Chemo and transplant, but that doesn’t appear to have happened. So worse than what was hoped but (very generally)
about what could be expected.
She’s being fed now via parenteral nutrition (TPN) which
bypasses the stomach and introduces nutrients right into the bloodstream.
This too isn’t atypical.
AML patients undergoing stem cell transplants are subject to malnutrition
caused by cytotoxic therapies. There’s
that word again, Cytotoxic. Cell killers.
Wreaking havoc on the digestive
tract. So they’re bypassing it to give
her nourishment.
So the two asks today are to again check out the go fund me
site and to simply send her prayers and positive energy. If she doesn’t get back to you, it isn’t for
a lacking of wanting to, it’s just that she’s feeling miserable and really doesn’t
have the ability to talk.
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