Andrew McIntosh
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180 appearances
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2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 1 May
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So even though it had kept it at bay for some time, it didn't work as long as we needed it to.
So at that stage, I needed an additional month of intensive chemotherapy to get back into remission.
And that was the old fashioned, make you feel sick, really horrible chemotherapy.
And at the end of that month, I was then ready to go again.
A slot came up.
I was booked in and I went through and did it.
So I ended up having my transplant in September, full eight months after I first got told about needing to wait.
We had a close look at that when we got told that we had to wait for the transplant.
We looked at travelling to Australia.
The advice that we got given from the haematology team was that it would worsen our outcomes by trying to travel around such a catastrophically intense thing as a bone marrow transplant.
It takes so long to recover that you'd have to be travelling while you were so sick at some point.
And it's hard for the family to wrap around you and provide the support you need if you're trying to do it in another country.
So in the end, we came to the conclusion that it wasn't practical and therefore not possible to go to Australia or go somewhere else to get it done.
The transplant itself was, it was definitely the most horrible thing I have ever been through.
It's indescribably brutal.
You have absolutely no energy at all.
You're not eating.
You're barely able to roll over in bed.
Nausea, a deep, deep fatigue.
So the time that you don't have any sort of active blood making facilities in your body lasts for about three or four weeks before the graft starts to take hold.
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