Overview
- Doctors flagged an extreme white-blood-cell count hours after she delivered her second child in May 2024, leading to the diagnosis.
- She writes that the Inversion 3 mutation means standard therapy cannot cure her disease.
- Care included chemotherapy, a stem-cell transplant from her sister at Memorial Sloan Kettering, a brief remission, relapse, and enrollment in a CAR‑T trial.
- A physician told her during the latest trial he could keep her alive for a year at most, and she is focusing on time with her husband and two young children as her parents and siblings help care for them.
- She also faults her cousin, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for cutting nearly $500 million from mRNA vaccine research; the essay was published Nov. 22.