Thanksgiving didn't go quite the way we planned

[pegkerr]

Rob is going to be in the hospital for the next two months.

We are now going for bone marrow transplant.

Read more at our CaringBridge post here.

Comments

[madrobins]

A bone marrow transplant is also (at least in part) a way of essentially rebooting the immune system (my friend Karen Williams just had one as a treatment for MS--the notion being that you're resetting the immune response to its original factory settings. This is helpful when you're dealing with blood-based cancers, but also, as you say, as a way of permitting higher chemo doses.