Tag: FLT3
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Little Pink Pills
Ok, so maybe they are more like peach or salmon colored. They are called gilteritinib (Xospata) and they are used to as a targeted therapy against the FLT3 mutation in leukemia patients. I talked a little about FLT3 in my previous post, but as a refresher, people who have AML with certain FLT3 mutations often have aggressive […]
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One Pink Tennis Ball
On Tuesday of this week, George had his 100 day post-transplant bone marrow biopsy (even though he was only 95 days post-transplant). Everything went well and when he was wheeled back into the recovery room, he was OUT. He slept until it was time to leave. No graham crackers and juice for this guy! Before […]
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Day +60
Wow. It has been 60 days since George’s bone marrow transplant. So far, we have just been chugging along. George is working full time from his home office, getting his magnesium transfusions every day, home infusion team comes twice a week to draw labs, I’m making sure he eats even though he doesn’t want to. […]
Diagnosis: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). A Journey 