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So I just found out a good friend has Leukemia.

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Fausto

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I'm still pretty much in shock. This guy is my age and makes me look like a couch potato. He's both a Category 1 cyclist and nationally ranked Ironman triathlete and gets diagnosed out of the blue during a routine checkup. His hematocrit has gone from 47% to something like 30% already. 🙁

Anywho, does anyone have any personal experience with this or can direct me to a good source of info? I'd like to learn as much about this as possible as he starts going through treatment.
 
I know first hand how terrible it is, but with children; adults are most likely different. I wish you and your friend luck in the coming months
 
He can fight it. But he has to believe he can fight it. Going as far as to visualize and really actually believe that his body is fighting it.

I'm dead serious.. I know a lot of you people scoff at stuff like that, but I'm a firm believer. Anybody who studies quantum mechanics should know why.

🙂
 
Originally posted by: Eli
He can fight it. But he has to believe he can fight it. Going as far as to visualize and really actually believe that his body is fighting it.

I'm dead serious.. I know a lot of you people scoff at stuff like that, but I'm a firm believer. Anybody who studies quantum mechanics should know why.

🙂
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That's probably the one thing he really has going for him. I'm sure he'll apply the same discipline he has with training to fighting this. Like I said, he's a fitness freak.

 
Originally posted by: Fausto
I'm still pretty much in shock. This guy is my age and makes me look like a couch potato. He's both a Category 1 cyclist and nationally ranked Ironman triathlete and gets diagnosed out of the blue during a routine checkup. His hematocrit has gone from 47% to something like 30% already. 🙁

Anywho, does anyone have any personal experience with this or can direct me to a good source of info? I'd like to learn as much about this as possible as he starts going through treatment.
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Sorry about your friend. Will add him to prayers.

I lost a 2nd Cousin to it many years ago. They have made great strides in getting the body to rebuild the marrow/blood system since then.

Sounds like his marrow is some sort of state of shock (possibly from over exertion Vs chemical/vitamin/mineral imbalance) rather than truly biological in nature.

Low hematocrit may indicate:
anemia (various types)
blood loss (hemorrhage)
bone marrow failure (e.g., due to radiation, toxin, fibrosis, tumor)
destruction of red blood cells
leukemia
malnutrition or specific nutritional deficiency
multiple myeloma
rheumatoid arthritis



 
what type of leukemia does he have?

i have first hand experience of this fu*ked up disease, my father passed from it on 25 May 2003. He spend many months at Andersons Cancer Center in Houston. I belive my dad had AML (i think). he was diagnosed in jan of 2002.

 
Bad things happen to good people. 🙁

It's not an easy thing to deal with. I wish him good luck. Give him all the support you can afford to give.
 
That's also known as cancer of the blood right?

The body produce a high number of mutated white blood cells that destroy everything. Am I close?
 
Growing up a kid who lived two doors up the street from me had it. He was a year or two younger than I was and we'd hang out.

He was lucky though, and had a mild case. Every once and a while I'd show up at his door and his mother would say that his blood count was down and he couldn't come out and raise hell with me . . .

He did get cured in the end, which was awesome.


Good luck to your friend, it can be a nasty disease but it doesn't kill everyone.
 
Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Growing up a kid who lived two doors up the street from me had it. He was a year or two younger than I was and we'd hang out.

He was lucky though, and had a mild case. Every once and a while I'd show up at his door and his mother would say that his blood count was down and he couldn't come out and raise hell with me . . .

He did get cured in the end, which was awesome.


Good luck to your friend, it can be a nasty disease but it doesn't kill everyone.
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Looks like he's going to try to control it with drug therapy first instead of jumping right into the bone marrow transplant thing. We'll see.

 
Originally posted by: Shelly21
That's also known as cancer of the blood right?

The body produce a high number of mutated white blood cells that destroy everything. Am I close?
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close. in laymans terms, the bone marrow produces WBC and RBC that are not mature and can not do their job.
 
I've known 3 people to have developed leukemia in the past 3 years 🙁. One of them died last year (my highschool soccer coach). The other two went through marrow transplants and seem to be doing much better now.

My condolences to you and your friend. Horrible thing to watch, and I can only imagine what it feels like.
 
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