It's been a while.
but I think it's important that I let you all know this, if anyone still reads this.
I have cancer.
for the last four and a bit weeks I have been living in Birmingham Children's Hospital, having treatment for AML [acute myeloid leukemia] type M7, which means my platelets are affected. Also, I'm missing a chromosome, which means that I have to have a transplant, because chemo doesn't work quite as well with this kind of chromosome abnormality. I have had chemotherapy, and tomorrow I go for my second bone marrow aspirate and lumbar puncture and that will help us see if I'm in remission [when I have less than 5% cancer cells]. after that, I'll have another round of chemo, but we don't know which kind yet, and then I'll go for a bone marrow transplant.
I'm scared. I try not to be, but sometimes I remember that this is a life-threatening disease and I could die. and understandably, that worries me.
if someone reads this that has my myspace, then I guess a link to this in a comment would be good incase people want to be updated.
I have cancer.
for the last four and a bit weeks I have been living in Birmingham Children's Hospital, having treatment for AML [acute myeloid leukemia] type M7, which means my platelets are affected. Also, I'm missing a chromosome, which means that I have to have a transplant, because chemo doesn't work quite as well with this kind of chromosome abnormality. I have had chemotherapy, and tomorrow I go for my second bone marrow aspirate and lumbar puncture and that will help us see if I'm in remission [when I have less than 5% cancer cells]. after that, I'll have another round of chemo, but we don't know which kind yet, and then I'll go for a bone marrow transplant.
I'm scared. I try not to be, but sometimes I remember that this is a life-threatening disease and I could die. and understandably, that worries me.
if someone reads this that has my myspace, then I guess a link to this in a comment would be good incase people want to be updated.