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October 17, 2006 , Day 0


Friends,

Wow! We have finally arrived at day 0! It seems like it has been a real rocky road. Today we started with trying Cyclosporine again. They gave me a little bit real slow, and it went fine. This afternoon, about 1pm, I started getting my transplanted cells. I was pretty well dosed with benadryl and ativan, so I mostly dozed through the process. It is nice to get started. Now the hard part begins.

I am getting full strength, full speed Cyclosporine now, with no problems. They think that what I got yesterday was not properly mixed, and I was getting pure Cyclosporine, which would cause the kind of reaction I got yesterday.

On the medical front, in addition to the Cyclosporine I also started getting the antibiotic Levaquin, and the anti-fungal medicine Diflucan. I am also getting Nystatin to prevent fungal infections in the mouth. Tomorrow I start a whole bunch of new drugs. I am still getting the antacid Protonix.

Lab Results remain strange:

My lab results are slowly falling.

Lab Results

Blood Cell Type

Normal Low

10/14

10/15

10/16

10/17

WBC 4.5 3.7 5.4 3.2 1.7
RBC 4.3 3.02 2.78 2.58 3.05
HGB 13.9 10.2 9.9 8.9 10.7
PLT 130 155 147 117 118


Take care!

Ted and Menchie


tw@wilcoxent.com

mench@wilcoxent.com

www.wilcoxent.com

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