Karuna Fund Raiser - for Subha

Talked to Subha a few minutes back. Still needs to go for his check up and blood test every 2 weeks. Other than a cold and some stomach upset, hes doing really well. Hope this new year brings more peace and happiness to him and his family.

Since last four months Subha's docs were asking when he was going back to the USA and so on. So finally he started the procedure of resuming studies and everything was set and finally got his VISA on 18th July as well. But when he went for the check up on 11th July in the hospital, his blood counts were all good except the platelet count (which was 43,000 down from 85,000 the previous month). So, the doc said that it might be due to some viral infection and asked him to come and get check up done after two weeks, on 25th. Subha went on 25th July for his tests, again all the other blood counts were good (WBC-5600, Neutrophul- 47%, RBC-4.1, Haemoglobin- 13.1) but platelet came down to 26,000. So they did a bone marrow biopsy the same day on 25th. Today on 26th July, he talked to his doctor over the phone and he said that he found 8% blast cells in the bone marrow and considers it as a Relapse state.

So the next step will be to search in the international bone marrow registry to see if there is any update in the result, and according to that they are going to set up chemotherapy coupled with bone marrow transplantation. Not much details yet

So yes, after all these days of preparing himself mentally for the comeback (after a year) and all those things that he planned to do; it is a real heart breaker to hear the news and to again prepare himself mentally for the next phase of battle.

Though doc said that the whole thing can be done in about 5-6 months and then recovery phase, the exact time period is not known. But there is hope, at least he would like to believe that even now..............

Talked to Subha Sarcar today. Everything looks good. Hes doing great. No issues as of now. Waiting on his I-20 from UTD and planning his trip back to the US.. His next doctor's appointment is June 11th. Couple more months and we might be able to see him back here in Dallas, trying to finish his Ph.D..