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The pre transplant chemo was even more intense then the cycles of chemo he had to put him into remission, and those were some big guns!! The pre transplant (conditioning) chemo is meant to wipe everything out! Cell production from his whole body.
Riley lost his hair with the other rounds of chemo, but he still had a little hair on his legs, or a few hairs on his eye brows left. Toward the end of a cycle, during the recovery stage, he might have a few hairs growing back. BUT, that conditioning chemo (in preparation for the transplant), which started March 19 and lasted for 9 days, knocked him out. He literally lost all of his hair. Eye brows, eye lashes, everything. Riley is thankful for his glasses. He says they give him "character" which he needs since he has no hair on his face. Soon it will be 2 months since the conditioning chemo and no hair in sight. He is so patient, but concerned with every day that goes by. "Where is my hair?" he says. I told him we should take pictures because that hair will be coming in any day now!
This is my brave boy.
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