Another Bone Marrow Biopsy, this one to determine whether the MDS has ‘transformed’ to AML. My gut feel is, it has.
Under sedation, they took some bone marrow.
48 hours later, I sat with Paul in a freezing cold ‘interview room’ on Ward 5C. (It’s now known as the ‘news room’……..you feel for anyone who is sitting there waiting for someone, some news…)
The Bone Marrow Transplant co-ordinator left to go and fetch Dr Kennedy. As we waited – me wrapped in a blanket to keep me warm, I swallowed hard and breathed very, very deeply. He entered the room, sat beside me and said delicately, “it’s less of what I thought it would be and more in-line with what you were thinking……”
I nodded, knowingly.
This man has just told me I had leukaemia. (What a shit job, I thought, feeling sorry for him.)
He asked politely if I understood? Yes.
My first question is “what percentage are the blasts?”. His reply, “20%, so you’re right on the cut-off……”
Go with that gut feel Kate. Don’t EVER deny it. Just roll with it and get on with it.
He and the team had a helluva job ahead of them, as did I.
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