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| Pain are mostly felt during the injection of lidocaine (local anesthetic) and the extraction of the marrow due to the change of pressure in the hip bone. |
The bone marrow biopsy done yesterday went well compared to last weeks. Last week on Wednesday, Erika was experiencing complications with the biopsy for her marrow kept on clotting the needle used to pull the sample. After coating the needle inside out with heparin (anticoagulant), the doctor had to stick her about 5 to 6 different times to locate a good site on her hip to pull a good sample of the marrow. Yesterday her marrow was behaving much better and did not clot the needle. She has an appointment tomorrow at LDS again to discuss the result of her marrow. Hopefully they say she can continue on with chemo and that she will not need a transplant (since there are no match at the moment), but mostly that she is in remission.
Here are a couple of links on YouTube to give you an idea of what a bone marrow biopsy procedure is like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svTQ-zJHY9M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfOeGWRmyl0
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