Yesterday (Friday) a meeting with The Professor to hear the full technicolor details of the bone marrow transplant. He explained to us why the BMT is necessary, what treatments will be applied and how they are intended to work and what their possible side effects could be. The good news is that the donor is an extremely good match, 9 out of 10 measurement points match and the 10th is a pretty good fit as well. To get technical this means that they can risk leaving the donor's T-cell lymphocytes in the transplant. If the match was less good this would cause graft-vs-host problems, but because the match is so good a graft-vs-host reaction can be managed. The advantage is that the donor's T-cells will attack any cancer cells remaining in Kay's system, thereby increasing the chance of a cure.
We heard that a provisional date of 8th April has been set for the transplant itself. This means that conditioning will begin 8-9 days before this date, thus we can expect to be living in hospital from the end of March for 6-10 weeks, depending on how well Kay recovers.
Just to rub salt into the wound, yesterday Kay played her first match in the club's tennis tournament for children and WON! I can’t get my head around this idea.
To add to the bizarre nature of this life, I’m sat on the Philips Innovation Campus in Bangalore writing this while I wait for my next meeting. I have no idea how normal life can co-exist with everything else that’s going on. But it seems that it does.
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