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Goodbye Puebla! Check out our last video of on the rooftop!

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Alex created and is managing this blog to document my HSCT journey however this post is from me. I've decided to take over her blogging duties.....

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This morning Maria had another shot of filgrastim followed by blood samples. On Tuesday she had a white blood cell count of 300. The doctor informed us that she would need at least 2,000 white blood cells by today in o...

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This morning's roof top view was spectacular! It has been cloudy for the past few days but this morning we could finally see the volcano, Popocatepetl again!

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We started off today with another round of filgrastim shots, blood samples and a hematology consult. Dr. Ruiz reviewed Maria's blood sample and explained she is now in neutropenia, this means her white blood cell count...

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With all the excitement yesterday with my stem cell birthday, I forgot to thank the most important people that made and are making this journey possible for me!

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Today was a VERY special day- Maria's stem cell birthday! We arrived at the clinic around 11:30am for her transplant. It took 3 1/2 hours to harvest the cells and only 30 minutes to put them back in. Once the transpla...

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Chemo is done! Maria is a rockstar! Here she is with fellow group 4 member and new friend, Louise from the UK. Maria is feeling good just a little nauseous. Tomorrow is the big day - Maria will get her 889.36 MILLION s...

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Today was a long but great day! Maria started with a blood test at 6am to test if she was ready for stem cell harvest. At around 11am we received the call that we were good to go! We took a 10 minute car ride to the cl...

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Maria started with a filgrastim shot at 7am. Then it was on to Hospital Puebla for catheter placement. The drive was about 10 minutes from the COR building to the hospital. The hospital was beautiful. Once we arrived ou...

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We had an exciting day! After Maria received her filgrastim shot we went to the roof top to shave her head. Her hair will be falling out after her 3rd and 4th round of chemo so we decided to get ahead of it. Maria's h...

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It's been a quiet week so far and will continue to be until Sunday. Maria is receiving filgrastim shots twice a day to help with stem cell mobilization. We have been keeping busy by attempting to complete this 1,000 pi...

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Yesterday was day 2 of chemo for Maria. We had a rough night after day 1. Doctors gave her extra anti nausea meds before starting the second chemo round. She is hanging in there - still a little nauseous

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Today was Maria's first day of Chemo. She is such a trooper! She wore her green shirt for Dad and we know he was with us today. It was a 6 hour treatment. We kept busy watching shows on our iPad and reading. We have a...

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Today we were finally able to leave our room after receiving negative COVID19 test results. We went to the rooftop garden to see the beautiful views of Puebla and get some fresh air. Maria had some pre-testing today whi...

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Greetings from Puebla, Mexico! It's definitely different traveling in a COVID world but we managed just fine. Once we arrived in Mexico we were greeted by the lovely Clinica Ruiz staff who disinfected ALL of our luggag...

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As we plan for Maria’s HSCT Journey to Puebla, Mexico we began packing all the essentials we have collected over the past weeks. We are anxious and excited to get to Mexico. If anyone is planning their HSCT journey yo...

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