Encouraging Words
There is a list serv for AML patients and families that I follow at AML@LISTSERV.ACOR.ORG. Participants often ask about treatments, trials, and issues with GVH. I posted this today as "An Encouraging Word":
My son John was diagnosed with AML in November of 2004. He received a stem cell transplant a year ago next week. He graduated from Emory University this past Monday, a year late but only modestly handicapped thus far by his experience. He is thinking now about the future and life, perhaps a little more thoughtfully than most his age.
In the year and a half since our lives made this turn, we have known fear, pain and hope, moved across the country to Seattle and back again, and learned much about each other and ourselves. There have been good days and bad, and perhaps a few doubts about tomorrows. We return to Fred Hutchinson in Seattle next week for John's one year follow up, a success, so far, and genuinely so good.
Whatever your situation, it may help to know there are stories like John's that give a face to hope.
Randy Cadenhead
Father of John, age 23
My son John was diagnosed with AML in November of 2004. He received a stem cell transplant a year ago next week. He graduated from Emory University this past Monday, a year late but only modestly handicapped thus far by his experience. He is thinking now about the future and life, perhaps a little more thoughtfully than most his age.
In the year and a half since our lives made this turn, we have known fear, pain and hope, moved across the country to Seattle and back again, and learned much about each other and ourselves. There have been good days and bad, and perhaps a few doubts about tomorrows. We return to Fred Hutchinson in Seattle next week for John's one year follow up, a success, so far, and genuinely so good.
Whatever your situation, it may help to know there are stories like John's that give a face to hope.
Randy Cadenhead
Father of John, age 23
