spence munsinger
artist & painter
February 18, 2010 at 8:21 pm, by munsinger
filed under daughter, news | tagged daughter
My daughter had a bone marrow aspiration this morning. Surgical, invasive as hell, painful-but-for-the-level-of-sedation. The surgeon had to work out the logistics of turning over a patient on a ventilator and five IV’s, with three chest tubes.
In an visual off-the-cuff observation, the pathologist saw healthy new bone marrow.
Not something you hope to have to hope for… But a very good thing.
She has at least managed to knock the leukemia back. A much more microscopic, detailed and clinical look at the smears of marrow will be done over the next day. But that first approximation, without detail, that is heaven. The first step for both of us toward life outside of a hospital room.
—spence
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