Chemo a second time and bone marrow transplant

UPDATE 9/12/24

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

I successfully transplanted in November 2023. There were many months of slow slow recovery but I'm coming up on a year since the transplant and I'm feeling more normal and energetic everyday! I've been cancer free since the transplant and when I hit the 1 year mark I'll no longer need to take immune suppressants and my docs will release back into the wild!

THANK YOU!!!!!

UPDATE 8/11/23

As of May this year, I am in another relapse and will have to endure a third go around with chemo. This puts the transplant in Oct/Nov with recovery stretching into spring 2024.

HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you to everyone that has supported me. It's impossible to describe what it means for me and the ways it helps to get through each day.

Dear friends,

As some of you know, I was diagnosed with Leukemia at the end of 2016. I spent several years in treatment while living in Brooklyn. Most of that time, I was grateful to have still been able to live well, enjoy the city, play music with so many talented friends, travel, and get the most out of life. Treatment finally concluded after about three years, right as a pandemic began. That’s when I chose a shift. I moved out of the city, spent several months on the west coast with family, and eventually moved back to my home state of Colorado. I spent the summer of 2020 living on a beautiful farm in Carbondale, CO, before moving into an apartment in town with one of my oldest and dearest friends.

In the spring of 2021 I had reconnected with an old college friend living near Boulder, CO, and decided to set my sights on moving closer to Denver and Boulder. I knew it was time to dive into my art and start writing and recording music, and building an environment and community to foster that. Since then my time has proved fruitful and has been a joyous discovery of knowledge, community, and creativity. I feel greatly privileged to spend my time around people filled with love and gratitude, creating, and taking trips into the mountains and deserts.

Around March this year I started experiencing odd symptoms in my body and after following up with doctors and testing have found out I’ve had a relapse of Leukemia. I spent the first half of May in the hospital getting started on chemotherapy. I have immense support at home from my loving partner Kristin, one of my dearest friends Sam, and my mother who lives a few hours away.

We expect treatment this time to last into the fall, culminating in a bone marrow transplant that will require around 4 weeks of hospital care, and rigorous monitoring in the months following.

I am very fortunate to have decent financial support, decent insurance coverage, and some of the best medical care. However, I am unable to work and my monthly medical expenses exceed my income. I am asking for help covering these expenses, as well as transportation to appointments several times weekly, extra supplemental care at home, and additional functional medicine.

Love and gratitude,

Galen