by Dianne | Oct 18, 2011
My precious son turned 15 today! Originally expecting Tyler to be hospitalized for 5-6 months straight, his being home just in time for his birthday was a major blessing. The day began inauspiciously with a trip to the lab for required blood work. The not-so-clean...
by Dianne | Oct 18, 2011
Late last night Tyler’s doctor called us with wonderful news! The flow cytometry results of Friday’s bone marrow aspirate showed that the first round of chemo was very successful! The number of leukemia cells left in his bone marrow is less than 0.1%,...
by Dianne | Oct 17, 2011
Tyler’s time at home so far has been wonderful!!! It’s been pretty physically exhausting, but mentally and emotionally he’s been on cloud nine. Saturday he attended the Mt. Hebron High School homecoming game and was the honorary captain (he got to...
by Dianne | Oct 14, 2011
Two days ago the doctors told us that Tyler’s blood counts were coming back up at a rate that could send him home much earlier than expected for his break before the next course of chemo. His neutrophil count had to be 200 in order to go home. Yesterday his...
by Dianne | Oct 10, 2011
Tyler, Ron and I met with one of the transplant doctors this evening. Feeling a bit overwhelmed right now, but we will try to summarize. They have completed Tyler’s typing and have searched the bone marrow registry. They have 4 matches, all adults from...
