Shannon Reeves
Hi Everyone,
Shannon has been diagnosed with
Early T-Cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ETP ALL)
EarlyT-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ETP-ALL) is a highly aggressive subtype of T-ALL characterized by the abnormal expression of myeloid/stem cell antigens. The plan for her is to receive 3 to 4 rounds(6-8 cycles of A and B each) of chemotherapy and get into remission. Then, she will undergo a bone marrow transplant to completely replace her bone marrow with healthy marrow and keep the disease from returning.
Shannon has many friends and family that want to stay updated on the latest news regarding her health and treatment plans. This website will serve as a place for updates so that we can post one update that everyone has access to. This frees up time spent texting many individual numbers and also prevents us from accidently leaving people out. Please feel free to leave comments on each post/update. Shannon will be able to read all of your comments.
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Updates
June 30th, 2025
Long time since last update... Back in January, Shannon finally went home from the hospital after they figured out what was causing her pneumonia. I can't remember the name of the bacteria, but it's something that's part of our normal respiratory bacteria. In her...
Discharged Home After BMT
After Christmas, Shannon's blood cell counts rapidly recovered. Sometimes they will use an injectable drug called filgrastim to boost white blood cell production, but Shannon didn't need it. She started producing plenty of blood cells on her own. Once her white blood...
December 15th – 25th
Allo Day +2 thru today Allo Day +12 Since the transplant, Shannon has been very sleepy. She sleeps more than she's awake on some days. Her appetite remained good until about a week ago when her throat began to hurt a lot and she also developed some nausea. The intense...
December 6th – 14th
Shannon was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center on Dec. 6th. Her room is twice the size of any of her previous rooms, very modern, clean, and comfortable. She's on the BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant)floor in the Walter Tower. It's a locked...
November 2024
Bone marrow biopsy results were delayed and we got a partial result back from the flow cytometry that showed 2.4% blasts still present in her marrow. So we proceeded witht the 2 different outpatient chemo drugs at the beginning of November. The medications were...
Sep. 18th to Oct. 27th
A lot has happened since our last update back in mid-September. September 18th Shannon had another Bone Marrow Biopsy to check for the presence of leukemia cells in her marrow. There's was still a very small percentage of leukemic cells around 1%. Since anything less...
Sep. 14th, 15th, 16th
Sep. 14th and 15th Not much to report. Shannon was really tired and achy all weekend. Sep. 16th We had a meeting at Methodist Hospital with the BMT Social Worker and aslo with the BMT doctor. (BMT = Bone Marrow Transplant) First we went to the Outpatient Building...
Sep 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th
September 10th Nothing significant to report. September 11th Shannon had lab work and a visit with NP Manila. We did her visit a day early (Wed instead of Thur) because she had an IT Chemo scheduled for Thursday. Her hemoglobin was right at the lower limit of 7, so...
September 9th
Monday Aug. 9th Shannon had a cell count check this morning and then we met with Manila the NP. While we were waiting for her to get her blood drawn, we overheard two men talking in the lab waiting area. One of them said he was a recording artist in Nashville. So the...
Sep. 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
Shannon had a couple of days after we got home where she was very tired and weak. This is getting to be quite the norm and expected. After a couple of days she felt better and she's been doing lots of cooking and cleaning. She overdoes it some days and gets really...