Showed up today at 7:15 am, waited for blood draw. Got to infusion at 7:45 to receive platelets and - SURPRISE - 3 more growth factor shots. I feel like the shot up cartoon character who drinks a glass of water and it all comes out of the holes in his body. Up to 24 shots and my tummy is bruised and showing the grief I've put it through. After the infusion, I was back at apheresis (collection) to spend another 5 hours on the machine. Got home around 3pm and waited for them to call me back to let me know if I had to get more shots tonight and do more collection tomorrow. The call came in at 7:30pm that I needed more so off we went back down to SCCA to get poked 3 more times (up to 27 now if you're counting). Yesterday they collected 3.9 million cells, today it was 3.7 million. They want to collect between 8-10 million stem cells from me so back down for another day tomorrow. We're "close enough" but it would be best if we had a few more. Since I have no plans of getting another 30 shots of the growth factor, we decided just to go in tomorrow and collect the additional amount needed. Did get to talk to the nurse who is in charge of the isolation rooms at UW and she was able to answer some of my questions. I will actually get to meet her on Thursday when I have my next data review.
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