Makoto's Pesky Cells

Updates: It’s amazing to walk with Makoto now up the same hills that she recently realized were making her out of breath. We are still in our apartment as snafus near the end of construction pile up a bit. We hope to be home in early August, but I’ve learned just not to count on…

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Updates: Makoto and I have experienced the last 25 days very differently. Her days have been filled with sickness and wellness, poisoning and healing, watching numbers rise and fall, walking endless circles while trapped in the same U shaped hallway on a floor in UCSF, trying to get sleep of increasing quality in any way…

Updates: The bacteria Streptococcus mitis was the cause of the fevers and chills. This bacteria typically lives in our mouths but was found in her blood, so my sister suggested that Makoto should no longer try to eat her PICC line! 🤣 更新: 熱と寒気の原因は、ストレプトコッカス・ミティスという細菌でした。この細菌は通常、口の中に存在しますが、彼女の血液中に見つかりました。ですから、真琴がPICCラインを食べようとするのを止めるべきだと妹が提案しました！🤣

「ソフトな刑務所」 Updates: The nurses and doctors shift around quite regularly on the floor where Makoto is staying. With the exception of a single traveling nurse, all of the staff have been pretty great. In a couple of “it’s a small world” moments, two of the nurses went to ISU and lived in Bloomington/Normal. We’ve had…

事実に基づく更新 Facts: Makoto is through her first round of treatment. She is feeling much better in the two days since chemo stopped. More information when we have it! 事実: 真琴は最初の治療ラウンドを終えました。化学療法が終わってからの2日間で、彼女はかなり調子が良くなっています。新しい情報が入り次第、お知らせします！

血液を出して、血液を入れる Tonight is the last infusion. Makoto seems good but very tired. She is often nauseous, but the nursing staff is very attentive and has been good about offsetting most of her issues with medication and other support so she is still eating well. Interestingly, she has returned to some of her pregnancy cravings of…

翻訳は下にあります。 With breast cancer chemotherapy regimens typically a large dose of chemo is given in a single setting, and then you leave for a week or two to recover. You need that time to recover. Leukemia laughs at this regimen. The basic regimen for standard Leukemia is 3 days of one chemo, every single day,…

翻訳は下にあります。 Again I will start with facts as we have them right now. As soon as the doctors started looking at Makoto’s leukemia they were trying to understand it’s mutations. The mutations that lead to the cancer determine how treatable it is, and how specifically it should be treated. Because Makoto was generally pretty healthy…

翻訳は下にあります。 Thankfully more good than bad so far but I will put the facts up top here and explain more down below. Makoto has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Here are some facts: Some things to know about AML: A little over a month ago, while walking daily up the very steep hill where…