Luck Feukemia!

This sucks!  Luke was admitted to MDA at 4 am with a temperature.  He has no white cells.  He's on  medication to increase white cells production but his counts have not bottomed out from the last chemo.  MDA is running blood to check for bacterial infection.  Expect results in 24 hours. 

Luke's temperature has come down but he's still dealing with a headaches and nausea.  Being off steroids there is not much of an appetite.

Kendall and Tony were in town for their shower.  It's official, Kendall is a perfect HLA match giving Luke the option of a bone marrow transplant. 

We also talked to the docs at MDA about a trial they are doing with t cell therapy.  They are using genetically modified t cells to kill off leukemia infected white blood cells.  The t cell therapy would be done in conjunction with a bone marrow transplant.  Results look promising and it may be an option for Luke.

That's it for now.