Ryan's story

Ryan was diagnosed with Stage 4 High Risk Neuroblastoma N-MYC amplified in July 2008. He was out of treatment for just over a year when in November 2010 our lives were again turned upside down when we discovered the disease had returned in his bones and bone marrow. After a year of treatment re-staging scans in November 2011 showed that he had again achieved remission.

However just 3 months later, in February 2012, end of treatment scans gave us the devastating news that the disease has returned, this time with a tumour near his spine. In March Ryan started 4 weeks of radiotherapy followed by chemotherapy. Re-staging scans in May and August showed no evidence of disease. On the 4th September 2012 Ryan received treatment in Tubingen for a haplo-identical stem cell transplant. He is a happy, active boy who is now enjoying life to the full.

Saturday, 10 November 2012

Still no good news....

The T-cell analysis of yesterdays blood confirmed no change and all T-cells were Ryan's. Unfortunately further analysis showed that neutrophils now also originate from Ryan too. A detailed analysis of the rest of the blood has now been requested to check whether any counts now originate from my stem cells. This may take until middle of next week.

The implications of this new development are have not yet been discussed until the full details are known but its clearly not good news.

In the meantime Ryan is having daily GCSF injections to keep his WBC above 1 and by not having it IV he is able to have these out of hospital, he lets Gareth do it for him. He is really enjoying seeing my mum and dad and we ventured into Tübingen town centre yesterday and let Ryan spend some time and money in a massive toy shop. Its the first time he has been in town and although it was a brief visit, he really enjoyed it.
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