Jail

A quick update:

This past Wednesday morning my mother was admitted to the transplant floor at 8 AM. She received her radioactive antibody (I-131 radiolabled CD20) infusion shortly after. I talked to her briefly around noon, and she stated she is feeling quite fine and hoping she won't be too bored.

She is allowed visitors, but because she's radioactive they literally have to sit around another wall and scream at my mother while she screams back -- there isn't even a glass window or anything. Very few of us are visiting (my father only because he's in close proximity); perhaps once she's post-stem cell transplant, I'll visit.

It will be approximately a week before she starts to feel heavy effects from the antibodies and then shortly after that, she'll get her megadoses of chemotherapy.