IGA: Baseline: 2290, Now: 1000
IGA Lambda: Baseline: 2440, Now: 475
M-Spike: Baseline: 1.61, Now: 0.76
I've been holding off on setting a date for my wedding and we discussed it briefly at the appointment. I want to hold it late summer, before her ASCT b/c if we wait until after, it could possibly be winter (and, if she has complications, it will be even longer). My biggest fear is that she becomes sick after the transplant and wouldn't be able to be at the wedding. So, a question I have is when she is at remission level/near remission levels and they harvest her stem cells and freeze them, can she wait a couple months before the transplant? That way, if she continues having excellent response to the treatments and she's ready by say, July, can she continue treatment (to keep the multiple myeloma levels down) and wait until say, September to have the transplant, or is it best to as soon as someone hits that remission level, to immediately move to transplant? It seems like from reading other's posts, it looks like many times the transplant teams have the patient stop the treatments a couple months prior to ASCT. My mom wants to have the wedding after her ASCT, but that would be a year from now (she was thinking late fall, but I need to convince her there is a lot of time after the transplant that she'll need to just focus on getting well). I'm getting close to 40 years old and want to start a family, waiting until next year isn't a smart option for us.
Thank you all!
