My Second Stem Cell Transplant

February of 2012,  I was on a new Chemo, a pill I took twice a day. At first I was told the cost was going to 40 thousand. After negotiations with my insurance company, the cost was 40 dollars from a specialty pharmacy in California

That month, I flew to Arizona to visit my sister, Beverley and he husband, Ron Lowe. I had a nice of visit and saw some of the desert vistas of Arizona. After a week, I flew back home.

March 18th 2012, I woke up to get dressed for the day because I had a before school piano lesson scheduled. When I put on my jeans, I could not. zipper them with my right hand. I went upstairs to tell Frank. When I tried to talk, all that came out was gobbledy gook. He helped me zipp up my jeans and I went to give my lesson.Twenty minutes into the lesson, after my student kept saying. "What di you say?" I said that she should maybe work on written theory work.

After the lesson we called Everett Clinic and told them what happened. When we arrived, there was an aid car waiting to take me to the hospital. I didn't know it at the time'when you've had a stroke, you had a three hours window to get to the hospital. I didn't know it at the time,but I had had a TIA which is Where a blood clot forms and blocks the blood flow to the brain. I  dissovled after awhile. That's why I could answer the EMT's questions clearly. One day later in the hospital, they stopped those pills. A major side effect is blood clots. The Oncologist started me on a older, harsher chemo. They were running out of options

The same morning April 18th, 2012, the youngest daughter of my oldest son, Eric amd Kelli was born. I couldn't see her for three days, after I was released from the hospital. I had no residual permanent effects from that incident.

That Chemo caused me to get very anemic, and in the summer of 2012, I went to the hospital short of breath. I didn't want to go, but Frank made me, thank heavens. They could not find anything wrong with me other than a fever. They gave me double antibiotics, not knowing what they were fighting Four days later, after a second ex-ray they found the pneumonia in my lungs.
By that time I had reacted to the double antibiotics and had contracted red man's disease. I looked so tan, I looked like I had been to the Bahama for two weeks,

I hast arrived home at Erics house. When Frank had Eric pick him up in Stanwood, to bring me home, he had to take him into the doctors because his blood sugar count was so elevated. Long story short, after stabilizing Frank, they came to pick us up. That's the reason we were both staying with Eric's family.