An update on past news
Wednesday, June 26, 1996
Wednesday, June 26, 1996
ANSWER: He had a bone marrow transplant using his own bone marrow. It was done at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore in May 1995, and the bone marrow transplant was successful. ItÕs a process where the patientÕs own bone marrow is treated and transplanted back after cancer cells are removed.
ÒMy blood count is doing really good,Ó he said Sunday. ÒI do need to go in every week for checkup and transfusions,Ó he said. ÒA lot of people are out there that still need a transplant,Ó he said, thinking of fellow leukemia victims. If all goes well with him, he wonÕt need a match, which for him was perhaps impossible to find. ÒI still am looking for a match if something should go wrong, but hopefully nothing will,Ó he said.
He recently completed his sophomore year at Maryknoll High School. Now age 16, he went to the school Winter Ball. He had a date too, he said. HeÕs working on getting his drivers license. But does he have any vocational plans? ÒI guess I want to be a doctor,Ó he said.
ÒHeÕs leading a little more normal life and being able to be a teen-ager,Ó said neighbor and family friend Clyde Morita, who with his wife, Marilyn, coordinated a fund-raising drive for him.