The Plan

We've asked for a couple of days at home, so we won't go back to Hershey until Tuesday. They'll immediately do blood work and a biopsy. If it's obvious from the blood work that the leukemia is progressing, he'll be admitted for treatment right away, if not, we'll have to wait for the biopsy to confirm the relapse.

We'll learn more on Tuesday about the treatment regimen that Jeff will be getting. Because he's relapsed fairly quickly after the last round, he'll be getting a new combination of chemo drugs, but I don't know what they are yet. The transplant coordinators will start looking for another donor, because ultimately, Jeff is going to need another bone marrow transplant, and they believe that an unrelated donor will give him the best chance at long-term survival.