The bone marrow harvest takes place in an operating room, usually under general anesthesia. It involves little risk and minimal discomfort. When the patient or donor is under anesthesia, the physician inserts a needle into the cavity of the rear hipbone, where a large quantity of bone marrow is located. Several skin punctures on each hip and multiple bone punctures are usually required to extract the requisite amount of bone marrow. There are no surgical incisions or stitches involved, only skin punctures where the needle was inserted.
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Bone Marrow Harvest
Eric has to be at the hospital for 6:45 tomorrow morning for a surgical bone marrow harvest.
Please please please let there be enough stem cells for him to be able to proceed to transplant....
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2 comments:
I'm praying extra hard for Eric tonight.
Jane (mom)
I am also praying for you Eric and so is your papere and others. So get to bed early tonight. Kathy you must be exhausted. Try to get some rest too.
Dad
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