Bittersweet news

Amazing. Now that K's been officially told she needs to be cancer-free for 5 years, before she can get back on the transplant list, in the past week, two kind souls have each offered up a kidney. So as wonderful as these offers are, they're just a bit too late to be of any near-term help.

Back on Chemo

K went in for a fistulagram, a small outpatient surgery, on the 4th. Her fistula had a narrow section, which they widened. She had strong bad reactions to the Gleevec during September, and her WBC dropped precipitously low. So her Oncologist took her off it for October. She seemed to have less symptoms, especially the nausea, as the Gleevec left her system. On Friday the doc reported her WBC is back up to the top of the "normal" range. He's put her back on Gleevec, but with a 25% reduced dose.