Well I had my High Dose, its not a game. Its was pretty bad for me for the 1st 2 weeks. They give it to you over a 5 days, Day 1 to 4 is okay, day 5 is the worse. DRINK LOTS!!! I found the only thing I could get down was Iced tea (Haven't been able to drink it since but it worked then) I finished probably about 2 leters of it a day. The food is horrible because you get neutrapenic and you can't eat anything with flavour.
The reason for day 5 being bad is that they gave me 20 minutes of some drug strong. I was so happy it was my last day and I'd "only" have 20 minutes more.
But when thats over its recovery, recovery and more recovery. It can take you over a month to recover even with a stem cell transplant. It took me about 3 weeks. I went home the week after for about 2 days before Heather and my Mom took me back to hospital and gave the doctor a stern talking to for letting me out so soon. So I stayed in hospital for about 2 weeks.
After 2 weeks my counts were still to low but I was feeling allot better so the doctor said he thinks I should go home but watch my temprature like a hawk. His reasoning was that the hospital bugs I could catch was much worse than anything I could catch at home, and as long as I come in quickly if my temprature spikes I'd be fine.
Luckily shortly after I went home about another week or so my count started climbing slowly and finally I could take the mast off. The doctor did say I shouldn't eat take-aways for a little while longer. At that point I just wanted a salad! We made a huge greek salad :)
It was hard but one month for the rest of my life with Heath is definitly worth it. I don't think I can ever tell her how much I appreciate her.
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