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Constance Peters Fighting Cancer

Please pray for my good friend, Connie...

UPDATE:  April 2, 2014

By ashley rieke — 10 minutes ago  The date has finally been set. I just found out that I will stop taking my chemo pill on the 5th. I must be off 10 days prior to going in the hospital. I will be admitted into the hospital on 4/16. At this time I will start a stronger chemo to make sure there is no cancer anywhere. I will have this by intravenous. On the 11th day I have nothing. On 4/22 I will have my bone marrow transplant. The donor is a 25 year old male from somewhere in the USA. They will fly it in and give it to me the same day. It goes in intravenous and will take around 1 hour. I am so thankful to this man that he is trying to save my life. I have a hard road now to go and could be in the hospital for awhile. Thanks again for all the cards and phone calls. Can't wait to get my life back.

UPDATE: March 16, 2014

I have been home now for 3 weeks. Going stir crazy. I go to the cancer clinic once a week for labs, my pick line to be cleaned and to see a doctor that is on the transplant team. We got some Good news last Thursday, they are getting closer to finding a donor. This week I will start doing the pre-treatment for bone marrow transplant. I start on Tuesday with getting all my major labs done and meeting with different doctors for echo, EKG, mammogram, full body x-Ray etc.  The doctor wants to make sure that there wasn't any damage done to my heart by all the chemo Ive been on. The pretesting will take 2 days.  Hopefully by the beginning of April the coordination for the bone marrow transplant will be complete. 

The other good news is my doctor ok'd me to go and see my parents in St. Louis, this up coming weekend, before the surgery. My parents still don't know that I am sick. I've decided that I'm not going to tell them the full story as I feel they can't handle the words I have cancer. I have a hard enough time with everything as I know it would be harder on them. So to them I am having a little surgery. 

Currently, Im on an oral chemo pill but 10 days prior to going back in the hospital they will take me off of it. Then when I go back to the hospital I will get a stronger IV chemo for 7-9 days.  After that I will have 1 day off and then they will begin the transplant the next day. I will be in the hospital 4-6 weeks depending on how my body reacts. Then after the transplant is complete  I will go onto a 100 day very close watch.  During those 100 days I will not be able to be left alone, I can't be further than 30 min from hospital and I will be going back for many, many check ups at the cancer center. 

 Thanks for all the cards and calls. It means a lot to me. I pray I will be strong for the surgery. Never thought I would have trouble eating. Actually ate a 1/2 of grilled cheese today. One day at a time!

She maintains a Caring Bridge Account...  Please click -->  Connie at CaringBridge to learn more about a great person that deserves our prayers...