Leukemia Patient's Transplant Care

James McAny has been battling Leukemia for the past 6 years, & finally went into remission last October. Shortly after he met his future wife, and they became inseperable. After many years of wanting to start his life up again Cancer free, his cancer came back.  He was now facing a bone marrow transplant at UCSF in San Francisco later in the year after starting chemo & radiation again.  James recently had got married to his wife Lucy in November, a beautiful day for the couple in the midst of an uncertain future for James surgery and recovery. His sister (pictured), was a Half Match for the transplant surgery, however UCSF is using newer technology and instead of doing a Bone Marrow Transplant are doing a Half Stem Cell Match.  With this transplant, his immune system will be completely erased and started over at an infants level of red and white blood cell count. He would have to do a 6 hour surgery for the transplant, stay under strict care at the hospital for 1 month, then released to a hotel very close to the hospital, (they live almost 3 hours away) staying there for 3 months under close watch and isolated from visitors other than his nurse and wife.  Any kind of outside cold or germs can get him sick with his immune system being severely low.  Pneumonia being the biggest scare. Strict diet and meal preperations will be essential and mandatory for his recovery.
James and his sister Tish had surgery right before Christmas & both surgeries went well considering. James is still currently at UCSF for the next 3 weeks.