Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Penn Redux

We're going back. When is still a question, but the study reopened yesterday.

Because Chris received some chemo over the weekend, there will be a bit of a delay to wait for that to clear because they need to do the hours-long apheresis to get T cells all over again. I'm not sure why and I'm not happy about it, either.  I was told it may be 3-4 weeks before they can collect them again.

Next would come the 4 weeks wait while they manufacture the "smart bomb" T cells, following which, we would go back to infuse them and stay for 6 weeks.

Chris's oncologist here at Simon Cancer Center believes that there is still a window of opportunity to get this all accomplished.  Today, he said he was personally "bird dogging" them.  What a guy.

So, in the past week, we have gone from being completely unsettled by a turn for the worse, hospitalization, and little information to Chris feeling much better and a plan that has promise.

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