Year Four

Summer 2008 to October, 2008

Summer
By the end of the Summer, Ray's ferritin was down to 2600 and his ALT was 43.

Fall
Ray was scheduled to have his BMT workup the last week in September. They planned to hospitalize him Oct. 10th and Oct. 17th would be Day Zero for his BMT. Unfortunately, on the second day of Ray's evaluation, it became apparent that his port had an infection. It was determined that he needed emergency surgery to remove the port. Ray spent the next week in the hospital on IV antibiotics and for Gram Negative Rods Infection and Serratia. After running a 104 temperature for several days, the infection finally started to go away.

Last week we returned to Shands to complete Ray's BMT workup. We are now waiting for the word to move forward with the transplant.