Diagnosis…Prognosis…what next?

Diagnosis is done. We are waiting for the results of many tests to give us an indication as to where to go from here.

I remember the very first night the doctors saying that Melanie was near the edge. She was so weak when she was hospitalised and there was a good chance that she could not make through the theatre session where they gave her total anaesthesia.

She might have been “near the edge” then but she came back to me and everything was going to be just fine.

My husband, Andi tells me all possible scenarios but I don’t want to listen to him. Just focus on the good outcome.

They say 80% survival chance. But actually, for AML in children it is so much lower. I understood “survival” being absolute cure. Perhaps I only wanted to understand it this way. I don’t know.

One month later… the test results shows that Melanie is in remission. This is unbelievable. Just after the first treatment of four treatment protocol.

Melanie goes from the worst-case patient into a very good-case patient scenario. This is something to celebrate. Once again I know that she is going to be just fine.