Emma and I arrived at the BMT clinic at 7:30 this morning in response to a request that we be thirty minutes early for an appointment with Dr. Tricot at 8:00 AM. JoLyn took my vitals and ushered me into the consultation room that Dr. Tricot uses while Emma waited outside. When she had finished she retrieved Emma and we then waited for the doctor's appearence, which was prompter than usual. He had barely started on his questioning about my general health and reaction to the drugs that I take when Nancy arrived to monitor the consultation. Dr. Tricot did not comment on the bone marrow or MRI results from the tests of last Wednesday, but my new patient coordinator, Carol, gave me printouts of all the tests (a portion of which is reproduced above), which I later read without much understanding of their significance. It was not until the consultation ended that Dr. Tricot said that I am doing very well and he is pleased with the current results. Nancy asked him, after he had said that he wanted to complete 12 maintenance cycles of which today was the first day of cycle number seven, what happens after the 12 cycles are completed. He said he would like to do another 12 cycles and she then asked would the drug regimen be and he said that it would be more-or-less the same. The flattening of the 2 curves in the diagram above pleases Dr. Tricot; he wants the Kappa Free light chains curve to flatten to near 2mg/dL and perhaps this will happen with another 12 maintenance cycle period.
Emma is reacting better to the new prescription to treat her bullous Pemphigoid that Dr. Hull gave her at the visit on June 14. The new pills list of side effects is the same as those with Tetracycline but whatever side effects that she gets with the new pills are much less severe. The blood work done on the visit with Dr. Hull shows that her potassium level is high and she was advised to cut down on her intake of potassium-rich foods, such as banans and potatoes.
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