Alex and Ashley Meyer enjoyed one last date on Valentine’s Day before being he was admitted to Vancouver General Hospital for a stem cell transplant.
“We haven’t been going to restaurants, so it was special for us,” noted wife Ashley.
Alex started intensive chemotherapy Thursday and he was to spend 40 hours hooked up to a machine.
“He will do that for a few days and then his stem cells will be re-introduced into his body,” Ashley explained. “This is when they expect Alex to be his sickest and could last for two weeks or more.”
Alex will be in isolation for two weeks before he’s allowed to come out of his room, she added, so that’s definitely going to be a struggle.
The long-awaited and anxiously-anticipated treatment for his Hodgkins lymphoma, diagnosed in March of 2020, will keep the Chemainus firefighter in Vancouver for about six weeks. He’ll spend four weeks in hospital and two weeks as an outpatient, with Ashley anxiously awaiting his return at home.
Ashley made the trip to Vancouver with Alex for his admittance, but is unable to stay and visit due to COVID protocols.
Ashley and Alex will be keeping the lines of communication open by telephone and other virtual means to fill the personal void.
