Saturday 18 January 2020

18/01/20

Red hands are back. Possibly just a touch on soles of feet as well. It's a dex night of course - haven't spotted a connection with that before.

Visited the vampire nurses yesterday for another Velcade / Bortezomib injection and got the results from last Monday's bloods. No significant change, and PPs still "detected but level too low to be measured". PPs are only an indirect indicator of plasma cell  numbers and activity (bone marrow biopsy is the only way to get direct measurements), but a very strong indicator that we've got the little devils under control.  All very good.

Now into the last week of Cycle 3. Then it's the "week off", then Cycle 4, then the transplant. It's getting closer...

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