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The situation: Cathy Anagnostopoulos was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. A Pharmacist by trade, Cathy has a family with 3 young children - Alex, Angela and Gregory.
After she had experienced headaches on and off for a few straight weeks, Nick, her husband of almost 20 years, took her to the emergency room at North York General Hospital. Preliminary blood work showed abnormalities in her blood cells.
Cathy was immediately transferred to Princess Margaret Hospital for further evaluation. It was there, on February 23, 2011, that she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), and learned that she would be spending the next month or so undergoing intense chemotherapy treatment.
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This obviously came as complete shock to her and her family, as she was in otherwise perfect health. Staying true to her selfless personality, Cathy was more concerned for her children than her own well being. She used her family as inspiration to get her through the 5 weeks of chemo and recovery she spent at Princess Margaret Hospital.
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On Tuesday, March 29, 2011, doctors determined that her blood cell counts were sufficient for Cathy to be discharged. At home 4 days later, Cathy felt short of breath and got rushed by ambulance to the emergency room at Sunnybrook. Unfortunately, blood tests revealed that the cancer had already returned.
Having failed her first round of induction chemotherapy, Cathy is once again at Princess Margaret Hospital and is scheduled to begin another, more aggressive round of treatment.
Doctors have determined that Cathy will require a stem cell transplant to have any chance at a full recovery. That's where she needs your help - Please attend one of the many swabbing events listed in the
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events section, or order a kit on-line and get tested immediately. We don't know how much time she has - so let's not waste a second of it. This is an urgent matter of life or death and YOU may be the only match to save her life.
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