Andrew's journey through his second bone marrow transplant. Nearly 10 years ago he underwent his first transplant with David (his twin brother) as donor. This time he is having a non myeloablative transplant and Grant (his other brother) is his donor. His treatment is taking place through Stanford in California. This is to cure Andrew - go Andrew.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Continuing on the upward swing
Andrew's platelet count is higher than it has been for many years and approaching near normal levels. White count is very slowly creeping up ... so all good news on the cell front. Red cells are always the slowest to engraft. I think at they will soon try to do a blood test to work out what percentage of his blood cells are his own and what percentage are Grants. It can take up to a year for full chimerism. So everything is going along as expected.
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Grant Donating!!
Grant Donating his Stem Cells
Lizzie's Birthday
Andrew. Lizzie, Alice, Penny, Angus
Lizzie b'day (Sept 28)
Happy Birthday to Lizzie
Good to hear Andrew! Thinking of you!
ReplyDeleteLove to all,
Geistendor family
Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteVery heartening news. I'd love to catch up next time I'm in town.
ReplyDeleteGianni