My sister had volunteered for a few marrow registry drives and on Saturday she had her own drive at the Dallas Yoga Festival. My brother and a few friends helped and they added 32 people the registry. Follow their efforts on facebook.com/RachanaFightsBack The odds of someone finding a match is low so the more people in the… Read More It’s in you to give
This whole week Rachana has complained about headache, neck sprains, and nausea. We had three trip to the clinic this week and each trip was a battle. Rachana lies down on the back seat but threw up in each trip. Even in the clinic she was either nauseated or actually throwing up. Each time they gave… Read More Checked in the hospital
The brain MRI came out good. The doctors were looking to see if there were any lumps, swelling, blood clots, internal bleeding, leukemia in nervous system, etc that might have caused the blurry vision issue. Thankfully this came out negative. The Ophthalmologist came in the afternoon and did a bunch of tests and confirmed that he does not… Read More Day 23 – Two steps ahead, one step back
This morning Rachana went from 2 days of constipation to 10 hrs of diarrhea. They had given fiber supplements and two other meds to handle constipation and then Rachana asked for a suppository, which triggered the diarrhea. In talking to another nurse, she said usually they don’t give suppositories to patients who have low neutrophils (ANC),… Read More Day 21 – The symptoms pendulum swings wildly
Currently Rachana is not scheduled for a bone marrow transplant but it might become necessary at a later stage. We don’t know yet which way this’ll go and how fast it’ll be needed. In the last 2 weeks we were getting her siblings tested to see if they are a potential match. Siblings are the first choice… Read More Day 20 – Rachana might need your help
Rachana's recovery from Leukemia 