Well Darrens appointment came by on Wednesday and Bone marrow results still arent back from the Royal free! Blood results were ok, if not a few liver results being a little off the charts. Darrens specialist has said as long as BM results are in (he is chasing them) and darren remains well, he will see him in 3 months :)
So back to normal behaviours for a while now, put it to the back of our minds and carry on.
Friday 6 November 2009
Tuesday 3 November 2009
WOW what a deifference a few years make!!
I was reading this article online, and brought tears to my eyes, its hard to hear what would have happened if darren had got this cancer 10 years ago
"WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA, OR C.M.L., PRIOR TO YOUR RESEARCH?
A. Life was pretty miserable. If you were over 40, the main therapy was interferon, which prolonged life for maybe a year in perhaps 20 to 30 percent of patients. Interferon made the patients feel awful — like the worst flu. The only other hope was a bone-marrow transplant for younger patients. The problem there was that the death rate in the first year was 25 to 50 percent.
C.M.L. patients were always difficult to see because both of us knew that the clock was ticking and there was virtually nothing that we could do about it
This has all changed since new drug came into the face of it all in 1999.
Full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03conv.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
"WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA, OR C.M.L., PRIOR TO YOUR RESEARCH?
A. Life was pretty miserable. If you were over 40, the main therapy was interferon, which prolonged life for maybe a year in perhaps 20 to 30 percent of patients. Interferon made the patients feel awful — like the worst flu. The only other hope was a bone-marrow transplant for younger patients. The problem there was that the death rate in the first year was 25 to 50 percent.
C.M.L. patients were always difficult to see because both of us knew that the clock was ticking and there was virtually nothing that we could do about it
This has all changed since new drug came into the face of it all in 1999.
Full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03conv.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Monday 2 November 2009
Agggrr So the winter bugs begin
Ok we have dealt with Swine flu and now we face the fight of the winter bugs. Me and both the girls are poorly. I have a nasty chest infection, Tanisha has a cough that sounds like she smokes 50 a day and poor Jaz has ear and chest infection and has a raging temp too.
for once darren is the well one, I guess all those vits do work :)
We should get Bone Marrow results on Weds, and i wont lie, Im scarced. If these results show a good reduction is cancer cells we are on the home run and just need to keep going as we are and hope he makes remission within the year :)
If they show little or no reduction, we have to start this whole battle again from the start with new chemo.
Prayers and thought for those that need it x
for once darren is the well one, I guess all those vits do work :)
We should get Bone Marrow results on Weds, and i wont lie, Im scarced. If these results show a good reduction is cancer cells we are on the home run and just need to keep going as we are and hope he makes remission within the year :)
If they show little or no reduction, we have to start this whole battle again from the start with new chemo.
Prayers and thought for those that need it x
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