The Devermann Family

AMKL is more common in down syndrome children. There are only 40 cases of typical children who have had Kate's form of AMKL. She has a 1;22 translocation. I still have a lot of learning to do, but from what I understand it means her chromasomes have split at 1 & 22, and have re-attached to eachother. In the bone marrow sample that we got this last time they saw that 16/20 of her cells had mutated, and believe that is becasue this translocation. Hopefully we'll gain access to some of the hospitals medical websites as the information on the internet is mostly geared toward children with down syndrome and AMKL (DS-AMKL). We start chemotherapy on Monday and we don't really know what to expect. Tomorrow Courtney is coming to take some pictures of Katelyn. We want some before she's sick and losing her hair. Just keep praying for her. I believe in miracles & pray that Kate will be okay. Thank you to everyone for your love & support.