Hope

This morning as we drove to Durham for the appointment with the new oncologist, we had no hope. We had been told by our regular oncologist that they would not be able to do anything else because the leukemia was coming back too aggressively. We were wondering why we were even going -  just to hear more bad news. But we went ahead and met with a bone marrow/stem cell transplant oncologist. After checking Jerry's bone marrow biopsy, he came back to the room and told Jerry that he felt that he could do the transplant. It will be a less invasive chemotherapy treatment, but it will target Jerry's particular problem with his leukemia.

If our other oncologist agrees and they are sure he will, Jerry will receive an injection of a chemo drug for 7 days straight and wait 3 weeks and receive another round of the chemo drug. Then after another 3 weeks, they will check Jerry's blood to see if the chemo had worked. And if it has, they will be able to do the stem cell transplant.

They are already working on obtaining a donor through Jerry's siblings and through the national bone marrow registry.

It will be a long process. If they are able to do the transplant, we will have to move to Durham for about 3 months.

We left knowing there was hope once again.

We want to Praise the Lord and to thank everyone for their  love, support, and prayers.

Psalms 71:14

But I will HOPE continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.