Tuesday Doctors Visit

Well Jill and I went To UCLA for dr Eradat's visit. The visit was very good and we received a lot of instruction and education about the Myeloma. The blood work markers that we are looking for are red blood tobe normal, The IGA, IGC, and IGG Hemoglobin antibodies tobe normal again. The disease is about the hemoglobin antibodies in my case IGC with are the cancer do not die. They multiple instead of dying. They take over the bone marrow and will not let the other antibodies grow and do their job. So I'm prone to alot of infections since my antibodies are not working correctly. I think I have 11% of my bone marrow affected. That has to be corrected and then I'll be in remission. At that point we can start the stem cell transplant process, It takes about a month to complete. The dexamethodone Steroid, is the drug that helps kill the bad cells. When the die it allows the good antibodies to grow again. My test show very few of the correct antibodies exist in my bone marrow and far too many of the bad. Prayer - That the continued high dose dexamthodone will quickly engage and distroy the bad antibodies allowing the good antibodies to grow.