At last week’s appointment my local oncologist gave me three options:
1. Re-induction chemo and if I get into remission, do a 2nd transplant
2. Take Sprycel to see if the medicine can extend my life (My Leukemia is C-KIT+ (cd117+) which Sprycel can be effective on. *This is not a long term cure)
3. Do nothing, [...]

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These past few weeks, we’ve been helping my mom move out of the house we grew up in and into a place closer to her work (which also happens to be my hospital). Yesterday I found my senior yearbook that I hadn’t seen in years. On the first page I flipped to, I [...]

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We got the results from the biopsy yesterday and they aren’t good. Michelle has 30% blast cells in her marrow which means she is not in remission and we’re going to have to be more aggressive.
We have a general idea of what’s to come. First step is some sort of chemotherapy to get her in [...]

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The past two weeks have been stable on the medical front and that has been a very welcome sign. There haven’t been any unexpected surprises in terms of Michelle’s counts. It’s been over 6 weeks since Michelle relapsed, and the odds were that these cancerous cells would multiply rapidly. I’ll give you an example of [...]

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My latest counts with normal ranges in parenthesis (not too shabby eh?):
WBC 2.9 (3.5-12.5 K/uL)
RED BLOOD CELLS 3.68 (3.60-5.10 M/uL)
HEMOGLOBIN 11.2 (11.5-15.0 g/dL)
HEMATOCRIT 34.5 (34.0-46.0%)
MCV 94 (80-100 fL)
RDW, RBC 16.3 (11.9-14.3%)
PLATELETS COUNT 86 (140-400 K/uL)
NEUTROPHILS %, AUTOMATED COUNT 73 (41-81%)
LYMPHOCYTES %, AUTOMATED COUNT 23 (13-46%)
MONOS %, AUTO 3 (4-12%)
EOSINOPHILS %, AUTOMATED COUNT 0 [...]

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