Anieta Page- Stem Cell Transplant

Dear Family and Friends,

 

My name is Mirannda, and I am fundraising for my mother Anieta who was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma blood cancer on August 20, 2021. Anieta has overcome many challenges in her life, and this is just one more! She is a loving and caring grandmother, aunt, cousin, sister, friend and mother.

 

On May 1, 2021, Anieta was raced to the hospital via ambulance and diagnosed with Pneumatical Pneumonia (which is a bacteria in your blood). She was in the hospital for six days. The doctors did many tests during her stay because things were not adding up. After being discharged, she continued to have many appointments and labs done to see what was happening. During this time, Anieta continued to work full time but felt more tired than usual.

 

On August 20, 2021, when she was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, she found out that she would need to start chemotherapy and eventually have a bone marrow transplant. Anieta began her weekly chemotherapy on September 1, 2021. During her weekly chemotherapy, she could only work a couple of days a week because it was extremely exhausting. She completed her last chemotherapy treatment on November 17, 2021. Unfortunately, shortly after her last chemotherapy treatment, she tested positive for Covid, which forced her into isolation, missing more work.

 

On December 6, 2021, Anieta began the workups to qualify for the stem cell transplant. She did weeks of growth factor injections to prep her blood for her Autologous transplant (which means they could use her own blood so a donor wasn’t needed). During December and January, Anieta was able to work very minimally. She was at the clinic almost daily doing labs and getting her growth factor injections.

 

On January 26, 2022, Anieta was admitted to the hospital. She needed to have a blast of chemotherapy that day because they still found cancer in her blood. On January 27, 2022, she had her transplant. They call this day 0, also a day of rebirth! She will begin her recovery with zero immunity and will need all immunizations/vaccines again beginning on day 100. On day 10, she formed a fever and was taken to the ER and later admitted to the hospital. She had developed a blood infection (50-60% of transplant patients do). It was nothing we could have prevented. The doctors discovered that the bacteria had come from one of her lines. She had surgery to remove it and was discharged after spending six days in the hospital.

 

Anieta needs at least 30 days of 24-hour care and visits the clinic daily for labs. Unfortunately, she cannot return to work until at least day 100. She has been able to get some grants from Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, angel, Bone Marrow & Cancer and cancercare.org (THANK YOU!), but bills and daily living funds are becoming challenging.

 

Day 30, which is February 26, marks her day of survivorship! Unfortunately, Anieta will never be cured but goes into remission. We are not sure what the future holds, but I hope we can take away some of her financial stress.

 

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!