In remission & preparing for bone marrow transplant.
26 July 2020
On July 14th after two rounds of chemotherapy, I into complete remission and there is no trace of leukaemia in my body. The haematologist said he couldn't ask for better results. all glory, honour and praise to our Lord Jesus Christ!
This is the first step and means that I can now proceed to a bone marrow transplant in Wellington.
On the 25th July, I finished a “holding” round of chemotherapy – this is to keep the leukaemia away prior to my bone marrow transplant in Wellington. (pictured)
The Wellington transplant team have confirmed they have a male donor that they are testing, who is on the UK donation database. There are 16 genes they need to match and he matches me 15 out of 16. (the last one is not important apparently.)
He has agreed to donate and has gone through the 1st lot of medical tests for infectious diseases. He has to talk to a doctor and general health checks before they sign him off.
Once signed off they will freeze his bone marrow donation and fly it over here. (they would normally have someone go and collect it but have had to change procedure due to Covid)
They are looking at late August for my admission to Wellington hospital and 1st week of Sept for the transplant.
3 months into this journey so far and we will be down in Wellington for at least another 3 months.
