TODAY'S PET SCAN RESULTS

My post stem-cell PET scan happened this morning.  I met with Dr. Stephens and received the results this afternoon. 

 

 

 

In other words,

 

I'M IN COMPLETE REMISSION!!!!

 

IT WORKED!!!  THE TRANSPLANT WORKED!!!! 

 

What a year it has been!!!  But I finally did it!  I WON!!!!!!!!  I've been cut on, injected, poked, stuck, lost my hair (twice), infused with toxic chemicals, had a stem-cell transplant and a blood transfusion.  But I never gave up, even when it felt like I would never reach the finish line.  It took a year to get there, but today I reached that finish line.  Not only did I reach it, I crossed it.  In first place.  I WON!!!!

The Magic of Cancer (And The Beautiful Things We Have To Do) Part 2

On my last blog post, I posted video of the stem-cell collection process.  Tonight I finally finished editing the video of the actual stem-cell transplant.  That whole editing process is such a pain!!  I would have loved to just post the video in it's entirety, but I couldn't for two reasons.  Reason one:  The video is really long and really boring.  The whole transplant video is about 30 minutes.  And as you will see, the process isn't very exciting.  At least not as exciting as I thought it would be.  Amazing and mind boggling, yes.  Exciting, no.  Reason two:  I puke.  Multiple times.  I don't feel like anyone would want to see that, so I took it out.

 

I hope you at least try to watch it.  I know it's boring.  But just because it's boring doesn't mean it isn't worth it.  I'm pretty sure you will learn something from watching it.  At least that's my  hope.  That someone learns something.  Even if all you learn is that we (Jeremy and I) don't always know what we are talking about, at least you will have learned something!!  So, here it is.  The highly anticipated Stem-Cell  Transplant video.  Enjoy!

 

  STEM-CELL TRANSPLANT VIDEO

 

And I apologize to everyone for having to open the video in another window.  I am clueless and can't get the video to play in the post.  It's actually a tiny miracle that I ever even figured out how to upload it to You Tube and then post a link to it here.  So, take what you can get, even if it is just a link :).

The Magic Of Cancer (And The Beautiful Things We Have To Do) Part 1

 I have some video of the whole Stem Cell harvest/transplant process but until tonight I haven't had time to sit down and figure out how to edit it.  I've been wanting to share the video footage for awhile because I feel like everyone might learn more about the process from seeing it rather than reading about it (at least I seem to learn better that way).  I hope what you are seeing makes sense.  This part (part 1) is of the stem cell harvest process.  Luckily for me this only took two days (one for placement of my central line and one for the actual collection of cells). 

Watching all the videos brought back some stuff I had already forgotten, like how much hair I had!  Haha!  And, I didn't include everything.  The video of me talking all crazy while in recovery didn't make the cut.  I mean, it's funny, but NO.  And I cut out a lot of Jeremy's random video of the room.  Other than those few things what you see is exactly what went down.  Oh, and I apologize for the terrible transitions.  That part of the editing I haven't figured out yet.  Hopefully my editing skills will be up to standard when I edit Part 2.  So, without further adieu, I give you my stem cell harvest video...

Stem Cell Harvest Video