[Linda]

My husband was on Vidaza for 11 months. He was doing well, then it stopped working for him.
Now after seeing a specialist at Wake Forest Baptist Hosp. He is on Dacogen, Dr. Powell says it is stronger. It put him in the hospital too. The second treatment he got pneumonia. The Doc here didn't want to put him back on again until his counts go up.

This Chemo is like vidaza in that it doesn't kick in until the 3rd or 4th cycle. Bob and the doctor decided to take the cycles on time unless he is too sick at the time to start. He re-started after being off it for almost 3 months. He got a different infection this time, in his throat. He was in for almost a week.

His WBC were at 1.0,and platelets at 11. He had 3 trx of platelets, and 2 whole blood while in the hospital. Tuesday he was up to 2.0 WBC. He is still not over the throat infection. We go for blood work tomorrow. Hopefully somemore improvement will show up.

I hope your Mom starts to see more improvement too, soon.