Hi My 17 year old daughter was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. Chemotherapy just isn't working for her so the only option left is to try a stem cell transplant. She is going into hospital early June. However, I also foster babies. I am really...
Hi everyone. So I first hade AML in 2013, I had 3 rounds of chemo in the trial AML17. I stayed in remission until June 2022. In June 2022 I found a lump in my breast and I instantly thought if it was cancer then it would be breast cancer. It turns out...
Hello everyone. I have just found this forum, I was diagnosed with AML on the 25th March and it has been such a rollercoaster. I haven't really had time to process it fully I was admitted the day after began my first chemo on the 29th March and finished...
Hi My name is Emma-Jane and I was diagnosed with AML last Thursday. To say my world has turned upside down is an understatement...no symptoms just routine blood tests and from then it has been a total nightmare.I am 56 and still cannot process the information...
In may I was diagnosed with APL and now in August I’m in remission. How I got here I don’t know, because I feel like it was just a whirlwind from noticing bruises, blood tests, then referred too hospital and admitted on same day; I was kept on this...
Hello all. My dad (74 yo) has recently been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. We are awaiting the results of genetic testing to find the subtype of AML he has so that treatment can begin. He was feeling well beforehand with just some breathlessness...
My Great grandaughter who is 2 in a few months was diagnosed with ALM in the new year. I was devistated by her diagnosis but have to keep positive. The hospital she is in are are fantastic. She will be there for a long while yet. She has not been...
Morning, My daughter, 25, was diagnosed with AML over xmas after a bout of heavy 'period' bleeding. She's just completed her 10 day Induction Chemo, and is now fighting a high temperature (around 40C) and infection somewhere... as of yesterday. ...
Diagnosed a couple of days ago and will find out tomorrow if they'll take me on for hospital chemo. I don't fancy the palliative option. In june although 71 I was working and hiking 10-12 miles. DIY, gardening. Now I'm a trainwreck. Losing weight. No...
Hi I was diagnosed with ALM Leukaemia with the FTL3 mutation days before Christmas 2023, was a total shock things moved very quickly started chemo 2 days later which had some weird n strange side effects. After a month I went home lasted 10 days before...
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