Cellular boost

Here is the latest news....thankfully all good!

1. The chimerism studies came back and the bone marrow I do have is 100% donor.  This means its not graft failure but likely a mechanism of me being transfusion dependant  and serum antibodies.  It essentially tells us no more chemo!

2. The donor has agreed to more stem cell donation. We are going ahead with the top up next Wednesday.  It will be an outpatient procedure done in an afternoon with two IVs.  It will be done in Calgary as well.

3. I'm finally coming off prednisone as there is still no sign of GVHD.  Maybe I can get some sleep now.

4. My wbc and neutraphils came up from last week.  I'm still neutropenic but not as badly.

The top up will likely take some months to work.  AA patients are notoriously slow to respond but they do feel it will work. Its hard to get super excited because I don't want to get my hopes too high.  At this point, however, this is the best news we could receive.

Fingers crossed everyone!