Happy that conventional treatment worked well for you.
Prayers for continued health, to your both.
Thank you . Not going to lie, treatment was difficult. My First one was 24 hours straight for a week. They take your wbc count to zero, platelets follow (mine were only around 7 at the time anyway. Normal is 150-400) and as for rbc’s - we are transfusion dependent. They blast chemo to kill the cancer in the bone marrow. And the purpose is to get us into remission immediately with that first course. And it worked. It doesn’t end there tho. Similar treatments follow until the stem cell transplant.
For a stem cell/bone marrow transplant, they give enough chemo to kill off the bone marrow (how else are they going to replace it). With an organ transplant, the diseased organ is removed and then replaced with the donor organ. But, you can’t remove bone marrow.
One day, there may be a better way. But, for now - due to the urgency with AML, this is the protocol. And for the most part it works. You have to be ‘healthy ‘ enough to endure it tho.