First off, the chemo therapy that Chris has been receiving is working! Here is an immunology results chart from November 19th that shows where she is at:
The IgG count that is at 1816 was around 9000 when Chris was first diagnosed with the cancer. The M-Spike was about 4 times as high also. They want to get the M-Spike as close to 0 as possible.
We had a nice trip to St. George for Thanksgiving. We had all of our family together to celebrate and remember all the blessing that we have.
Chris is suffering from some kind of what we think is chemo brain. However, we know that it is not a permanent thing because the day after Thanksgiving we had a totally normal Chris with us for the day.
She took a couple of weeks off of chemo to see if things improved and they somewhat have. She is more alert all day long but has increased confusion as the day wears on.
She restarted her chemo yesterday and will be on it for another 14 days.
We had a visit last week with a neurologist. He changed one of her daily meds and scheduled her for a 'sleep deprived' EEG for tomorrow morning. She doesn't get to sleep until it is over.
We will go get our first consultation on a potential bone marrow transplant on Monday.
We are even having a bit of fun outside the house. On Friday, we went out to IHOP for breakfast.
I'm so glad to hear this! We love you Mrs. Wixom and are so glad you were able to spend Thanksgiving with your family. Looking good!!
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