Thank you @tml. I really feel very fortunate to have gotten the transplant. In my case it was the only option if I didn’t want to be pushing up daisies from the underside. ☺️ It is not to be taken lightly however, it is not a walk on the beach by any means. The transplant itself comes with risks and potential longterm side effects. Especially when having an allogenic transplant, using an unrelated donors cells.

In your case, however, it’s a little easier on the system and requires much less hospitalization as you’d be using your own cells. It gets much less complicated when you’re not being infused with someone else’s DNA.
I wouldn’t let the prospect of the chemo scare you. For your autogenic transplant (your own cells) you’d most likely only have 1 or 2 infusions of chemo.
( With an allogenic there 5 days of chemo and sometimes full body radiation to make sure all the cancerous cells are cleared out, depending on the leukemia type and mutations.)
Your recovery time will also be shorter, again, because your body isn’t having to adapted to a foreign DNA. But for now, you’re not even near this bridge to cross. It’s up the road a bit. When that time comes, i’m with you every step of the way. ☺️. Will you have the transplant at Mayo?