One observation I made may help others avoid the headaches from the lumbar puncture. Of course this is purely anecdotal but you never know. When the hospital administers the lumbar puncture, you are instructed to lie flat on your back for six hours WITHOUT a pillow. Your spine (at least from the shoulders up) is straight.
During the evening when we had asked a nurse for guidance to empty my bladder (I was given a portable urinal for this purpose) she suggested that I could be flipped onto my side (with a pillow supporting my back) but that I should keep my head straight as before.
I took this to mean that it is important to keep the spine from the shoulders through the neck straight. Thus as a preventative measure, I went to bed flat on my back without a pillow. I still turned my head now and then as this doesn't seem to disturb the spine. Again thus far, no headaches.
One other item Lily had mentioned in the comments section of the previous post was that a red swelling has appeared mysteriously on my hand (where the IV was placed) after I emerged from stem cell injection yesterday. There is an update to this.

Pray for no complications with either the lumbar puncture or the hand discoloration. The next scheduled stem cell injection is via IV next Monday afternoon.
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