Well, we are back in Durham at the ABMT clinic. We came back yesterday morning hoping to only stay for a day or two but now it looks like we will be here for a week or so.
Peter started having troubles Sunday afternoon, nausea and vomiting with anything he ate. This continued and we called the clinic Tuesday afternoon. They scheduled us for an appt. here at the clinic. The current thinking is that he has graft versus host disease (GVHD)of the stomach/intestinal tract. This problem started 2-3 days after his last dose of prednisone, so the prednisone was probably just keeping the GVHD under control. He has been getting some IV meds plus fluids today and we have a skin biopsy later to look for GVHD of the skin. He has a colonoscopy tomorrow with biopsies planned. They plan to run some further tests next week so that they are sure of what he has and how they want to treat it. Hopefully they will just have to put him back on steroids.
We stayed at the Millenium Hotel last night and will be there again tonight. Then we move to Homewood Suites (not Homestead where we stayed before). We already had an appt. set for next Wed. so hopefully when we see Dr. Horwitz then he can send us back home.
Again we are indebted to Heather. We dropped Annie off at her house yesterday and she settled in quite nicely. She'll stay there until we head back to Wilmington.
We are confident that this is just a small step backward, and look forward to returning home.
Wendy
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