Kind of an up and down day for Sam yesterday with more nausea, but overall fine, and we finished our first pass of Super Mario Bros (now have to go back and get all the coins, but we’re on it.)
Anyway, just got his morning labs back, and after 10 days of showing “< 0.1 k/uL” now it’s showing 0.1 - so he’s got ~100 white blood cells per microliter of blood, instead of ~0 — I’m pretty sure that indicates engraftment! (But I haven’t talked with the team yet, just waking up.)
Exciting milestone - usually happens at Day +10 on this Stanford protocol, so we are a day early. (Lots of protocols at other places are two weeks or more, so we are happy to be here.)
Doc says that usually it’s about a week after this happens that patients get to go home, so fingers crossed - that would be best possible case. (But he’s also showing signs of a possible cold which could delay us.)
In any event, big milestone!