DLI

We had a 3 minute Skype call with the Doc and he had no blood results but had the decision from the transplant team. On to Plan B and that was to do Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI ) with my brothers Lymphocytes but NOT take his T-Cells(the ones that are used for Bone Marrow Transplant ,BMT) again. If the DLI doesn't work then we would move to Plan C variation 2 which is a BMT with a registry donor, not The Bro. This is because we are too compatible, it appears. Who knew?

DLI is way less invasive, way more compatible and way less likely to make me feel sick. So bring it on! We asked when this might take place and got told to talk to the Queen of Transplants, so will call her Monday and let you know what time frames we might be into.

The Rain Goddess has arrived from Canada and the drought has been broken once again. She heard I was in here doing a blog entry and offered this gem of advice. "Don't use Acronyms and when I type out the medical term it doesn't make it any clearer." So I'm going to do a page attached of terms because I thought that if I explained DLI every time I want to write DLI you would get BORED TO DEATH. And I thought that if you do a search on the blog you will find every term has been defined at least once. But see what a good thing feedback is!

If you don't understand something Please feel free to make a comment and I'll explain. I can't make sense to you if I don't get feedback on what's NOT making sense.

more later
Chris