I'm still doing well. My seasonal allergies got a bit worse, to about where they normally were in the past, so I've started using Nasonex again in addition to Claritin. That seems to be enough for now.
I found out that the third cord blood patient didn't end up with any donor immune cells, either. Dr. Burt now thinks that there isn't enough blood from cord blood transplants, even using two, for the chimerism to happen. Not sure why it happened with the first patient, though, with HIPAA and all. As far as I know, the focus will be sibling donors now, and cord blood as a fall back if there is no eligible sibling donor. Needless to say, this gives me more questions to ask Dr. Burt when I see him sometime this summer.
