Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Treatment in Greifswald, Germany




Hi everyone,
After a year on the Totem chemotherapy, which Hannah did really well with, we are now continuing treatment in Greifswald, Germany. We are going to try again with the immunotherapy, which Hannah could not receive the entire course of in Philadelphia due to allergic reactions.

We arrived in Greifswald 2 days ago, after a 10 hour train journey from Rotterdam. We enjoyed the ride - photos above!

Yesterday Hannah had her first day at the hospital here. Some tests were done and as she has been under the weather with a bad cough, an x-ray was taken, too. She has antibiotics to help her get over this. She also had her first part of the therapy which is a daily injection in her leg of a drug called IL2. She will have this for 5 days and next week will start with the antibodies.

Will write more soon to let you know how the treatments are going, and thank you as ever for your support and wishes!
Randy

2 comments:

  1. Hoping it is easier than Philly. Hannah is such a trooper but of course it helps that she is surrounded by such a loving and supportive family. Best of luck with this round.

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  2. Thank you for this - we hope so, too.

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