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Thanks Rachel for your prompt and clear answer. As with everything, it all depends on the facts, but it is reassuring to know that the starting point is that it is the same protocols as for the general population, so nothing is automatically ruled out just because of a previous SCT.
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Hi Mel, I have no medical training so you need to rely on your husband’s medical team. My partner’s neutropenic sepsis set in about a week after the transplant so he was at absolute zero neutrophils when he went to ICU. In the first couple of days he recorded his first neutrophil - a sign of great hope. You don’t say in…
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Hi Laulau1, I hope you’re winning and starting to put some weight back on. I’m not a patient, and definitely not a health professional, but have watched my partner go through the cycle of dramatic weight loss (and slower return to normal) a couple of times. I think it is really admirable to want to gain weight in a healthy…
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Hi Mel, I’m glad the post helped, and that you seem to be in a bit of a better place. Covid makes everything so much more complicated, but what we did a few times was stay a night in a top end hotel no more than an hours drive from home, just to get out and feel a bit more normal. Even when my partner was at his weakest,…
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Hi Mel, I guess you and your husband are a lot longer along the journey from day 26 back in August. I hope that all is improving an getting better. I am in your position as a partner/carer. The first time you leave the hospital is terrifying, you don’t think you can do anything, especially after having spent so long in the…
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Hi, I’m a bit confused by Tom’s explanation of neutropenic sepsis: “your body’s immune response can cause damage to other parts of the body.” That sounds like a description of ‘regular’ sepsis. I was under the impression that neutropenic sepsis was when the body lacks any/hardly any cells to fight the infection and…