My husband will also receive a bone marrow transplant in Feb. for MDS. We are very anxious especially since we had been told that he wouldn't be a candidate earlier in this process since re had a infection after his first round of heavy chemo and it left him quite weak and mentally disabled. But he has done super with the help of the hospital physical therapist and social worker and is now on target. A lot of prayers have been answered. We have been fully informed of risk and feel that this is the only hope for any kind of cure and some sort of normalcy in the future.
At the present time we are just waiting for his counts to come up from his last chemo treatment and keep him infection free. We have had all the pre test done and all are good. The donor marrow is on schedule to arrive also in early Feb. All systems a go. For anyone with this diagnosis it was very scary but hopefully will be worth it all. take the risk.