October 6, 2010

Wednesday, Oct 6^th, Katie is receiving blood transfusions and waiting to hear the type of leukemia she has so we can start chemotherapy.  We learned at 10:30am she had tdt positive cd 20 positive b cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).  We could now get the chemo regimen for this specific type of leukemia. She will be receiving Rituxan and Hyper CVAD.  After doing research we knew that ALL in adults did not have a good prognosis but there was one thing pending that had an even worse prognosis. That was, if she was Philadelphia Chromosome positive.  We would not get that result for 4-5 days.  At 1pm, Katie was being transferred to another hospital, Harris HEB Hospital, which had an oncology unit and was familiar with the type of chemo she was to receive. By 5pm we were starting our first round of chemo.