Wednesday morning is decision day. So last night Dr. Levis and Dr. Karp had their "discussion" over Trish. As Trish told me over the phone. Dr. Levis described his position as 60-40 (in favor of the normal treatment - HiDAC). Dr. Karp never wavered and was always at 100% in favor of the clinical trial for Trish. So the clinical trial is what we are doing. Trish signed the consent forms this morning (see the earlier post on the non-FLT-3 clinical trial for more info). This means that Trish will be an inpatient for 28-40 days. Bad for insurance, good for caregiving situation. The other treatment would have put us in opposite situation, better for insurance and worse for care giving as she would have been mostly an outpatient.
Last night Dr. Levis told us it would take another 2-2.5 months to clear the bone marrow transfer donor in prep for the transplant. So all of this should time out well.
Trish will undergo two extra bone marrow biopsies as a result of being on the trial and today she will get a CT scan. Look for another update this afernoon/evening without an email announcement.
Trish just called. Docs just came by on rounds. Since they gave her breakfast and she ate, they will wait till tomorrow to start, cause they need to sedate her for the bone marrow biopsy. So yet another delay...frustrating.
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