This is my husband's story as he recovers from a hematopoietic stem cell transplant in August, 2010 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Steve was diagnosed with ALL in April 2010, followed by 3 cycles of HyperCVAD chemotherapy and consolidation chemo. His sister, Mary, was a perfect 6/6 HLA match. The blog title is from Bob Uecker. The ER Attending gave us the initial diagnosis. "There is a little wrinkle in your labs."
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Good to The Bone
Results just came in from his bone marrow aspiration last Friday, they are GOOD...so that means either NO leukemic cells or very few, so we are now truly all systems GO for admission, which is more good news! Steve has had four aspirations, all clear. Leukemia can hide in the central nervous system as "sanctuary cells," so he has had intrathecal chemo pushed into his CNS to prevent the cells from hiding and causing an eventual relapse.
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