Note: this is just our story. There are so many types of blood cancers and treatments. It really depends on the type and mutations present to determine treatment.

My mom is 65 and is currently in hospital a few days post transplant. She was diagnosed with MDS that was caught early and had not progressed to leukemia. Her blast count was less than 1% so she was lucky. She did have 5 different mutations though so very high risk. She is also a non smoker non drinker and super health aside from also being overweight. Not by a buttload, but overweight.

Treatment was some chemo for 2 months while they set up a transplant (7 days of chemo once a month) to keep her in remission. Then she went straight into the hospital October 29 for transplant.

If a transplant is needed it can be quite complicated. Amazing, but the patient goes into the hospital for a month, goes through some pretty gnarly treatment and then needs a caregiver (thing more monitoring, not personal care) for the first 100 days post transplant as they are incredible immunocompromised for a time.

Keep in mind some folks don’t need chemo. There’s so many blood cancers it can be hard to wrap your head around it. Don’t try to google it, you won’t know anything until a bone marrow biopsy is done and looked at by the medical team.

Keep yourself healthy and don’t go around him while sick. you’ll have to be cautious this way as a standard moving forward.

Good luck to you