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It is so different for each person. I "hit the wall" at two days before transplant and was stymied for about 20 days. Just extremely tired. My tastes for food and water changed greatly during that period. Nothing tasted good and I really had trouble drinking my two liters of fluids each day. The only thing that I ended up with was basically tomato soup. I was always experimenting to find what would work to fit my appetite.

I had my first and only transfusion at about Day+8 when my platelets reached a low of eight. Like your son, I bounced back quickly and at about Day 12 my counts just took off in a positive direction as engraftment was occurring.