Its raining in Austin.. last night there was a thunderstorm so the whole house was shaking. The girls ended up sleeping in our room. All three of them on a huge duvet on the floor.
You all know the reason the blog is back again... I was hoping that I wouldn't have to write about this stuff again, but someone had a different idea.
On Sunday Aj started having night sweats and he went to see Dr. H and they found out that his white blood cell count was low. Therefor they did a bone marrow biopsy, that we got the results from yesterday.
They can see some A+ cells (still only traces) but the hystiocytes are more visible and putting all the factors together it looks like early stages of relapse. Not the news we wanted to have to hear - ever.
So the next step is to go to Houston to meet with Dr. Fayad then meet for a consultation with the Transplant team and see what they together will decide. Dr H said we should come home from there with a game plan. She said that typically he would get about 2-3 months of chemo - in preparation for transplant. We don't know if he can have an Auto (his own stem cells - they wash his blood) or an Allogenic ( donor)
We will know a whole lot more after Houston, and can plan accordingly. At least he is starting out in better shape than he did last time. He is young, strong, in good shape - he will beat this!
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