Last week, Michelle had a bone marrow biopsy that confirmed our worst fear — another relapse. We first suspected something might be wrong two weeks ago after learning that Michelle’s last blood draw in Seattle had 30 irregular cells. We hung on to the hope that this had simply been a fluke, but I guess [...]

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For the past two weeks, Michelle has had stomach pains which started as stomach rumblings but have progressively gotten worse. This has made it tough to be active, eat, and keep her food down. Our doctors believe that it is GI Graft-vs-Host-Disease since Michelle recently stopped taking some anti-GVHD meds a few weeks ago, so [...]

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Yesterday, we had 3 important exit meetings with various members of the medical team to make sure that everyone was on the same page as we leave Seattle.
Blood Transfusion Summary – First, we met with a blood products transfusion RN who made sure we understood the blood types of blood products Michelle would be getting [...]

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It’s good to be online blogging again!  Thank you for all of your concerned messages when the site was down.
Like Van said all of my test results are coming back clean.  I was especially excited about the negative MRI scans.  No leukemia cells in the noggin!  I also got my 2nd skin biopsy back and [...]

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Hey everyone, we’re really sorry that the website was down the past 6 days. Don’t worry, our technical issues did not reflect anything medical related. In fact, Michelle is doing quite well. See our prior post on the bone marrow biopsy results (which were negative) and our tentatively scheduled discharge date.
Since then Michelle has pretty [...]

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