This week’s mission moment comes from a past participant who has a nephew battling leukemia. Below are a few words from Gavin’s mom. Keep Gavin in your thoughts as you train and work to raise money for the cause.
“It's difficult to write into words what has happened over the past few weeks. The leukemia seems to have invaded Gavin's body yet again. On Friday, October 30, after a bone marrow aspiration and lumbar puncture, we were told that there appears to be Leukemic cells in Gavin's body. Sure enough after some additional testing, it was confirmed. On Monday, November 2, Dr. Cooper sat us down and told us that Gavin had indeed relapsed. Kenny and I were completely numb. This was our greatest fear and it was coming true and there was nothing we could do to stop it.
Gavin's doctors suggested a bone marrow transplant (pretty much as our only option). They have already begun the process of looking for a donor from the registry. Gavin's treatment will start out at Kaiser with chemotherapy to put the Leukemia back into remission, then we will move on to City of Hope for a transplant. We are trying to keep Gavin's body as healthy and as strong as possible in preparation for his transplant. Kenny and I don't have much more information than that. We will find out more as we go along. There seem to be many "potential" matches for Gavin through the registry. Unfortunately Kenny, Emma and I are not a match.
Gavin will not be able to continue with school because of all this but we have explained to both Emma and Gavin what is going on and that Gavin is sick and needs to go back to the hospital and doctor to get better”.
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