Tomorrow's chemo is a different story from the one Tony's been taking the last 5 days. Tomorrow's chemo is a single dose of Melphalam. It is a really strong chemo. It will be administered over 30 min. During that 30 min they will have him suck on ice chips to hopefully prevent too many mouth sores. The chemo has a half life of 30 min (half of it will be out of his system 30 min later. Then half of the remaining in the next 30 min and so on). It's going to cut down all of his blood counts extremely fast to prepare for the stem cell transplant the next day.
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