1/25/2017…This week Nathan started his maintenance chemo to keep the cancer cells under control, he’s had to report to the oncology clinic every day this week to receive his chemo injections…it ended up that it wasn’t just one Chemo injection a day it’s 3, so far this week he’s received 9 chemo injections with 6 […]
Maintenance Chemo: controlling the cancer till Transplant
Another day and 3 more chemo injections today for my boy, day 2… its a bittersweet process: hate this whole thing but these injections Nathan has to receive is hopefully keeping the cancer cells from maturing from t-MDS to fullblown t-AML and thats very important for his transplant and progress. He started the injections yesterday […]
Turn of Event’s – Lap 3
Thank you everyone for all your kind words, words of encouragement to Nathan and your prayers… It has been a very busy week; Nathan was admitted into the hospital late Saturday evening for a fever and bad chills, the concerns with the fever for Nathan where because he very low blood counts, the fever represented a […]
LAP 3 – MDS (premature leukemia)
After a very long month of not feeling well and many concerns with very low blood counts, we sadly share that Nathan has a type of leukemia… MDS is a type of leukemia that is considered immature cells, Nathan’s treatment will basically consist of the same treatment though and he has a much better chance […]