Hello,
I am 26 and my fiance 34 has been diagnosed with MDS raeb 18% blasts. He has had his first round of chemo with fludarabine,cytarabine but his counts did not come up quick enough after his bone marrow biopsy he was shown not to be in remission but the test was inconclusive beacuse the marrow was so surpressed.
The doctors told him that they got rid of about half. He has now gone through his second lot the same drugs but idarubcin mylotarg and gcsf added. The doctors have told him now that the first lot didnt get rid of about half and the cancer is proving to be resistant and that there is ony a 50% chance of remission if not he will be sent home to die. The worse thing is that before they left they told us that they had a donor in america 10/10 match.
I dont want to lose him and it is only two weeks left for his counts to recover, please if anyone has gone through something like this I would be grateful for any advice everyone just keeps telling us to be positive but its so hard.
Ali