ca-ca-ca cancer update!!

So far so good. Everything is on track. My white count has been up and down. Its finally bottomed out like its suppose to! Yay! So its only up from here! I've had a couple rough mornings. But as the day goes on I start feeling like myself! I did the 5 days of fludarabine and got to go home. I think that's where I left off last. Since then I moved back into the hospital. I did 5 days of campath. I tolerated that pretty well. Nothing unusual happened until a couple days in. I had hives all over my face and back and my throat was swelling up. But nothing that some benedryl and some steroids can't fix! Oct 2nd I had a half hr of melphalan. THE WORST! I had to suck on ice for 30mins prior and 6 hrs after. That didn't work out too well. Everything sweet tasted sour, water tasted sweet. I puked up my breakfast and about 5 popsicles. It was awful! I've had some rough days, but that's expected. I walked into all of this with a clear head thinking, "I'm perfect, nothings gonna happen". Wrong. So long being positive. This experience really takes you for a ride. The past couple morning I've been waking up at about 5:30am throwing up my my whole GI system. (or that's at least what I feel like).Transplant went well. I had this tickle in my throat the entire time. They gave me 10 bags for cells from my sister. She produced so many they gave me two transplants. I'm jammed with stem cells. Holla. So, my plan is to try and go at this drugfree! lol No more ativan- I feel like that may be my new addiction to put me to sleep. And I wake up feeling terrible. Tonight's my new night! My sister brought me some yummie pasta salad and a wrap and some ginger tea. So here's to my health! Cheers! Have a great weekend everyone!