Today my aunt will be starting her chemo treatment -- Here is an update from her Carepage:
The plan is to start treatment on Tuesday with heavy dose of chemo twice a day for five days. As long as I don't develop any fevers I will be able to come home and stay home as my counts go down. I will of course be back and forth to the clinic to get checked and have any blood or platelet transfusions as needed. If this knocks out the leukemia I will than get prepared for transplant. I do not know what that procedure will be yet as we have to wait for our meeting with the transplant doctor. There are two kinds of transplants, a full transplant and a mini transplant and I can't tell you all the details as I do not know them yet. This did come as a shock to Steve and myself as I was feeling pretty good and things seemed to be OK. I guess we got it at the start, but apparently I grows quickly as I have a lot of blasts in my blood. I am very positive that I will beat this and get on with life.
