Provenge journey: third times a charm.

After two miscues between the catheter clotting up we have a go. When I went to have my veins checked they said I would need a catheter on my upper chest to my Vena Cava so my cancer center placed one properly and flushed it within a week of the leukophoresis procedure. When I went for the procedure, spending $170 on gas and hotel, my catheters had clogged up with my over active platelets. Unfortunately, the United Blood Services I went to does not sock the necessary IV med, "Clot Blocker", to remedy the problem.
This time I had my Cancer Service unclog me two days before leukophoresis and though it was a nail biter of a sluggish start, the clot broke loose and we were able to proceed. I would have had it unclogged the day before but the leuko. procedure was scheduled for Monday at 7 AM.

this is mainly an FYI for any of you future Provenge plus catheter patients, I hope there aren't any. . . . Q

Q, it's good to hear you are able to move forward with the treatment. I'm closely watching all you guys whom are getting Provenge, as it is likely in my future. Also interesting to see by your signature that it looks like HT bought you 6yrs, which has provided enough time for this treatment to make it to market.

Wishing the best to you, and looking forward to more posts of your journey!

Good to have some positive progress.

Hang in there.
Andrew

Glad you were able to work through the problems enough to proceed ahead. Hope the worse of that is behind you. Good luck ahead, hope it does what it needs to do inside your body.

David