Good morning, @babshere1 Well, what you do know is that your current oncologist doesn’t have your best interest at heart. So it’s vitally important to be able to see another specialist soon and it sounds like that may happen this next week.
I will agree that at age 79, most clinics will not consider a bone marrow transplant because the risks of the chemo involved and the lengthy recovery process isn’t always in the patients best interest. However, there are newer medications that have been developed since my own experience with AML 7 years ago, that now allow older individuals with this form of leukemia a fighting chance!

That’s why I just don’t understand your current doctor and his lack of follow through. If one medication doesn’t work there may be alternatives. Which is why I’m stymied with your doctor’s quick dismissal and that lack of compassion.

We can just never give up hope. I remember the day I was diagnosed with AML and rushed to the hospital near death. A doctor whom I’d never met before, a hematologist oncologist, sat at my bedside holding my hand while talking to my husband and me. He was very forthcoming that the odds were not in my favor but he and his team would do everything possible to get me through this. He encouraged me to never give up hope because it makes all the different in the world. That’s the power of positivity all doctors should have.
I didn’t give up and I can see you’re the same mind set! While there are no guarantees, it’s important, at least, to find out what your options are! My attitude was that I’d either make it or I wouldn’t, but that I wasn’t going down without a fight!
How have you been feeling since you were released from the hospital? Are you experiencing more fatigue or any other symptoms?