My son had his MIBG scan today. Thank God that it showed no more neuroblastoma in the child. We got the result 3 hours after the scan. I guess writing an all clear report is easier than writing a report hilighiting issues.
I was going to arrive at the hospital in the afternoon, post scan procedure. This was a stressful test for us the parents as it would most likely show the neuroblastoma peresent still in the child's body.
I arrived @ the hospital at 14:00, and discovered that my wife and child were still with the nuclear medicine team doing the MIBG. It had been 2 hours. In my subconscious I thought there was something wrong.
My son came out of the scanning room after about 30 mins. He was really excited to see me. Well atleast he was done with 1 more test. Now it was just the bone marrow aspirate, bone marrow biopsy and CVL line change procedure remaining before the high dose chemo on the 14th/15th April, 2008.
My wife really wanted to go home, as she had been in hospital for over 2 weeks now so she negotiated to reschedule the bone marrow tests and cvl procedure to be done next week instead of tomorrow. The doctors willingly agreed as the childs platelets were less than 20. This would give him enough time to start producing enough platelets.
Abdullah got discharged and was understandably very excited to go back home. However we had go back to the hospital the next day to check his platelets again.
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