Nina is definitely feeling better since Saturday's report. The good news is that Reier is planning on releasing her on Monday. Barring any unforeseen problems of course. She is scheduled for a CT scan tomorrow, and a PET scan on Friday.
She has gradually started eating non-liquids. She had chicken and rice tonight with a salad and strawberries. She asked me to bring a flan from Picante. One of her favorite treats. She ate half of that and was able to have the nurses put the other half in the fridge for her. It all sounds like a lot of food, but she only ate a little of everything.
She told me that she actually walked around the hallway, took the elevator up one flight and walked around the hallway there too! Pretty amazing considering that 3 or 4 days ago she could barely move.
Dr Reier prescribed an unusual item for her when she gets home. The reason she prescribed it now is because it's hard to get and she wanted to make sure it was available when Nina is home. It's called Tincture of Opium. It's got an interesting history. It was difficult to find and took a lot of calling around. All the major pharmacies said they could not get it. When I called CVS they said they thought they could get it but I should call CVS at Rockridge. Rockridge said they couldn't get it. So I went to CVS Berkeley in person, and they assured me it would be in on Thursday. We'll see what happens.
When Nina is released, the next step will be seeing Dr Kaplan at UCSF and setting up a plan of action for the stem cell transplant. Incidentally, Dr Reier said it would definitely be an autologous transplant.
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