Out of the hospital

Dear All,

After sudden chills and fever due to an E-Coli infection on my Hickman’s line, I was admitted to the hospital on the 6th of Sept. I got discharged from the hospital yesterday night after 14 days. I had to take antibiotics every 6 hours. The Hickman’s line has been removed as it was causing the infection. This was the sort of setback they were expecting after the BMT since my immunity levels are low.

Infections like these happen due to very many reasons. So it's not as if I have been careless. I have also been administered with an Immunoglobulin Injection to improve immunity level. All these days, the immunity level was controlled by the immuno suppressants drugs. They would have to keep juggling between these two drugs for some time and hope for no more such infections / setbacks. My general health and counts are holding on fine. For the next few months, it would a weekly visit to the hospital. My appetite is slowly and steadily getting back to normalcy but I have a long way to go. Do remember me in your prayers to help me get past this phase without much hitch.

Thanks for all the support and strength provided so far. I am glad to say that with the current status of my MUD transplant, there are at least 4 or 5 cases waiting on the wings to go through the process. This gives hope to a lot of patients who would have otherwise not had a chance. So we have all set a path for a lot of people to follow and pray that all these cases would proceed smoothly. Kudo’s and thanks to one and all who has been a part of it in some way or the other.

Thanks and regards

Rajesh