My name is Kurt Brindley and I was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) in Bilineal Blast Crisis and the Philadelphia Chromosome Abnormality on November 30, 2009.
During the course of my care and treatment, I was very fortunate that the International Bone Marrow Registry was able to locate a Matched Unrelated Donor for me, which enabled me to undergo a Bone Marrow Transplant on April 7, 2010. My body has successfully grafted with the new marrow and subsequent bone marrow biopsies results continue to show me to be cancer and Philadelphia Chromosome Abnormality free. As long as things continue to progress well, I will continue to recover under the watchful eye of my oncologist team until they deem me fit to be released back into the wild, hopefully sometime around April 2011.
At the beginning of December 2010, it was discovered that, because of something called Graft Versus Host Disease, a side-effect from my bone marrow transplant, I have contracted a form of a debilitating lung disease called Bronchiolitis Obliterans. Now that I am cancer free, this is where the focus of Marrowish has shifted to.
It is my hope that with Marrowish I am able to document my condition and my experience overcoming my diseases in an edifying way.
If you would like to know more about me, you can visit here.
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