From Day -8 to Day -1 (Today)

• Day - 8, 26 June (Mon) : Admission to hospital
• Day - 9, 27 June (Tues) : Insert a triple lumen catherter near the neck, it is a tube with three smaller tube inside. This is for the administration of drugs and draws blood. Start to take antiviral, antibacterial, antifungus drug, "blood thinner" drug, drug to reduce uric acid, injection of Vit B12 (quite painful, like stinged by bee, luckily need to do it only for one day while the rest of the drug has to take until day -1 or day +21). They also give me some kind of pill to control my anxiety or "to keep me happy". But I think after taking the medicine, I got "short term memory lost", just like that Dori fish in the movie "Finding Nemo". It is a "law" to record the volume of urine that we pass out each visit to the toilet. I always forgot how much the volume immediately I emerge from the toilet.
• Day -7 to Day -4, 28 June (Wed) to 1 July (Saturday) : Start taking chemotherapy pills, 4 times a day, each time 30 pills. In addition to pills from day -8, I need to swallow more than 100 pills a day. Luckily they are small, with my big throat, consume 30 over pills with a single swallow is definately not a problem. You know, this big throat is a blessing of my poor childhood. When my parent brought home some nice foods home, I always swallowed them lightning fast because they are too delicious. Slowly, my throat becomes big enough to swallow so many pills with ease :-)
• Day -3 to Day -2, 2 July (Sun) to 3 July (Mon) : Stop the chemotherapy pills, switched to intravenous (iv) chemo drug, plus another drug to protect the bladder from the chemo drug. The iv chemo drug make me feel to vomit until today (4 July). But luckily it was not too bad, only experience one vomitting.
• Day -1 , 4 July (Tues) : All chemo drug completed, started iv cyclosporin drug to reduce the GVHD. This is considered a rest day. My appetite recovered during the dinner. Thanks to Richard's chicken soup "Mee Sua - 长寿面".

Thanks God and your prayer that until now everything goes quite smoothly. One thing to pray for me is that one of my PICC lumen (one of the double lumen catherters that are installed through my arm) seems to be blocked. Hopefully the nurse would have patience and wisdom to unblock it.

Tomorrow, Day 0, 5 July (Wed) is a BIG DAY for me as the stem cell from my sister will be transplanted (infused) into my blood circulation system. They will defrost it first to body temperature before the infusion. Ocassional clot might happen. Please pray that it would be smooth. They will put me to sleep for the process. It is just like a normal blood transfusion.

I have to go to sleep now. Will let you know the progress if I am well enough to write. Just come back to check often.

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