Donor Update – 1/20/10

Email excerpt from my Bone Marrow Donor Coordinator: When dealing with national and international registries it takes a long time compared to family members who arrive ASAP. World Wide I only found 8 potential matches; of samples we requested we only received 2 of them this week; they are in typing now. I do not … Read more

Bloodwish

There has been much focus on finding a bone marrow donor match for me. It makes sense because the sole reason I am going through all of the nausea and discomfort of the chemotherapy treatment is to destroy my diseased and dysfunctional bone marrow and replace it with someone’s healthy bone marrow. I named my … Read more

Donor Update – 1/11/10

Email excerpt from my Bone Marrow Donor Coordinator: I have found potential MUD [Matched Unrelated Donor] donors but I just requested the samples to be sent here for testing to see if they are fully matched. The samples are kept in the individual registry repository I do not have any planned arrival dates from the … Read more

My Doctor’s Explanation

Question: “Why was my diagnosis changed to Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) in Bilineal Blast Crisis?” Doctor’s response: Let’s focus on the bilineage part first. White blood cells can be of myeloid or lymphoid origin. When [Kurt] came to the hospital he had a high white blood cell count with mostly lymphoid cells. The high white … Read more