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Jon Strawson was informed by his doctors that they just ran out of ideas on how to give him treatment for his blood cancer. Strawson was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia on his 33rd birthday, according to Metro. However, he refused to just give up and die. He since then asked anyone to give him aid or advice and contact him immediately.
Jon decided to fight through and keep an optimistic mind for the sake of his three children: Freya, seven years old; George, six years old; and Henry, four years old. The feature photo showed George cuddling with his dad in the hospital bed after Strawson went through his recent round of chemotherapy at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
Although Strawson had tried different treatments, none of them had been successful, including a stem cell transplant.
Strawson said, “If you relapse from a stem cell transplant in the first six months your chances of survival are pretty poor. Doctors have never known anyone to be cured from the relapse I have.
“I was told I could either go home and receive palliative care and I could be dead within weeks, or try the option of intensive chemotherapy to give me a second chance of remission. However, there’s a 10 per cent risk of dying because the chemotherapy is so intense and there’s a 10 per cent risk that my bone marrow will never recover.
“But being given weeks to live is not long enough. I owe it to my three children to prolong things for longer if nothing else. Hopefully I will go back into remission again. Being told what I have is not the easiest thing to take in and I’ve had to have some horrible conversations.
“My children know I’m ill again and I’m back in hospital but that’s the extent they have been told.”
Strawson may only had weeks to continue living in this world and spend time with his kids, so he’s really taking up his chance if he could be lucky to have someone help him out with just about anything.
Anyone with helpful and significant advice or information can email Strawson at ray.jon@hotmail.com. According to his Facebook profile, he’s married to Rachel Strawson and worked at J and J Roofing.
According to Mayo Clinic, “Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow — the spongy tissue inside bones where blood cells are made.
“The word "acute" in acute myelogenous leukemia denotes the disease's rapid progression. It's called myelogenous (my-uh-LOHJ-uh-nus) leukemia because it affects a group of white blood cells called the myeloid cells, which normally develop into the various types of mature blood cells, such as red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.”
