Each clickable date, below, will call up that
day's bulletin on Harriet's health. The story starts with
Chapter One and Two, below. December, 1997 and January, 1998 entries,
related to my stem cell transplant, are shown on a calendar, and later
entries are listed just below the calendars. Once you read a daily
entry, you can return to this page or go directly to the next entry.
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Wednesday |
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Enter hospital |
Start chemo |
Chemo |
Chemo |
Chemo |
Finish chemo |
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Rest |
Rest |
Stem cell infusion |
Restricted to my room |
Restricted to my room |
Restricted to my room |
Restricted to my room |
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Restricted to my room |
Restricted to my room |
Restricted to my room |
Restricted to my room |
White Cells Rising! |
Resting & partying |
Home |
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Home |
Home |
Chanukah |
Chanukah |
Chanukah |
Chanukah |
Chanukah |
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Chanukah |
Chanukah |
Sarah's birthday Chanukah |
New Year's Eve. |
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Pictures from 12/19 |
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Wednesday |
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New Year's Day |
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Blood counts at "plateau" |
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Counts rising, vacation likely |
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Radiation therapy began |
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Excisional biopsy |
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| 2/11/98 | Immunotherapy, radiation, and a benign lumpectomy |
| 3/5/98 | Radiation therapy finished 2/28; low blood counts and blood transfusion |
| 3/26/98 | Low blood counts continue; vacation in Antigua |
| 4/15/98 | Blood counts steady or rising; bone marrow biopsy normal |
| 6/11/98 | No sign of cancer, but blood counts still low |
| 7/26/98 | Cancer-free but not anxiety-free: transfusions, Procrit, Cortef, Neumega,
a hospital stay
more transfusions, and leaving for Israel |
| 9/19/98 | L'Shana Tova - Happy New Year: feeling fine and very hopeful |
| 12/1/98 | A year has passed since the stem cell transplant! |
| 1/18/99 | No news is good news (no sign of cancer, blood counts still improving) |
| 3/22/99 | I'm doing fine |
| 11/25/99 | Giving thanks |
| 12/6/2000 | Still doing fine |
| 9/12/2001 | We're safe after the World Trade Center attack |