When I post to the blog and I think that I have no more news, I get more news. Typical.
Anyway, the Cancer Center has informed us that no action can be taken on M until she is ready to go home from RWJ. When they know that her levels are up and she can safely go home, then they can begin the process of checking through her medical records to determine what and if any assistance they can provide. They stated that they would need to know about 2-3 days before she is released.
Also, people in my family have been following the events in Robin Roberts' life, news anchor from channel 7's Good Morning America. She was diagnosed in 2007 with breast cancer and later in 2012 was diagnosed with MDS. Roberts developed the MDS from the chemo treatments she was receiving for her breast cancer; this is a typical way of contracting MDS. Roberts' sister is a match and assisting her with a transplant. I wish tons of luck to her and hope that she can beat it with the transplant before it accumulates into AML.
You can view some of Roberts' story HERE. Tune into to GMA for more educating stories on MDS for the rest of this week. Also, look into the process of donating your bone marrow. Even though M isn't available to be a participant, someone out there with MDS or AML may need a transplant if their siblings aren't a match. My mother has two sisters and a brother and none of them were a match. Also, earlier in July talks of paying donors for marrow may be available in areas everywhere. You can read more about that HERE.
“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.”
~ Flora Edwards
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