Monday - Bone Marrow Draw | Tuesday - Results

On Friday December 12th I got news that we will find out about Julian’s long term success on Tuesday. He is having a Bone Marrow draw on Monday to see the progress of the treatment to this point. They have taken him off the medication Tacrolimus, which is an immunosuppressive drug, whose main use is after a BMT to reduce the activity of the patient's immune system and the risk of organ rejection. After taking him off this med the goal is to “wake up” Marie’s T Cells in Julian in hopes of them "seeing" any of Julian’s remaining Cancer cells and attacking them. We are in high hopes that the trace of cancer cells currently found in Julian (1 cell of 9999 cells) will be recognized by Marie’s perfectly matched T Cells and attack them. We are hoping for the best.

Thank you all for the support that Nicole and I are continuing to get through emails, and phone calls. We are so lucky to have so many friends that are supporting Julian through us. I have passed on all your love to him. I have added a couple short videos on the site, so you can see the young man in action. They have been done through out the past year.