Diane Jensen: Celebration of Diane's Life

Monday, October 19, 2015

Celebration of Diane's Life

We have made arrangements for Diane's
services:
Thursday viewing, Oct 22 from 6-8 pm. Russon Bros Mortuary, 295 North Main St, Bountiful, Utah.

Friday Funeral, Oct 23 at 11am. Viewing prior, 9:30 to 10:30 am at the Centerville Utah South Stake Center, 270 North 300 East, Centerville, Utah.

We would love to have you come and, at the same time, understand that schedules and travel distances may make it impossible.

Additionally, we wish to thank you all for your many prayers and well wishes. We know the Lord's plan has been followed. We also want you all to know how grateful we are to the doctors, nurses and staff at the LDS Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, East 8 and their professional and compassionate care. They have been part of our family.

1 comment:

UnknownOctober 20, 2015 at 9:16 AM
I am so saddened to hear of her passing but know she is with her Heavenly Father. I will always remember her laughter, love of family and willingness to serve others. She supported everyone she came in touch with. She made my temple dress and two blankets (that I still have). Every time I saw her I was met with a smile and a hug. Her memory will live on through all of the lives that she has touched. Love and prayers to you and your family.
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Diane is very thankful for any well wishes, even if she is not able to respond to all of them.

Diane's MDS Diagnosis

The hospital encourages visits when she is home or inpatient. Call first to insure she feels well enough at any particular time for visiting. Her immune system is severely compromised, so we ask you not to visit with young children or if you are ill. Currently she is an outpatient.

Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) is a bone marrow disease much like cancer. If left untreated, it will eventually lead to the failure of the bone marrow (requiring transfusions) or Leukemia.

The only way to prevent this is undergoing a bone marrow transplant. Presently, her blast counts are increasing faster than expected but have not reached the level of Leukemia. Her blood counts are lower now and she has had a transfusion to help with this. She is to proceed with the bone marrow transplant now because of how rapidly the MDS is progressing.

Diane will enter the LDS Hospital's Bone Marrow Transplant Unit on Wednesday, December 17^th. She will undergo alternating rounds of chemotherapy for about 2 weeks. The chemotherapy will kill the blood producing cells, as well as her immune system.

Once the blast counts are reduced enough, then Diane will receive a stem cell (bone marrow) transplant. Diane’s sister, Tracey, is a half match and is to be the stem cell donor. However, effort is still underway to get a full match in time for the transfusion. The purpose of the transplant is to have the healthy stem cells replace the unhealthy ones killed by the chemotherapy (in the bone marrow). Once the transplant is done she will be on medicine to prevent rejection for some time (estimated 6 months to a year).

Mid term bone marrow biopsy coming up on (day 17) Friday, Jan. 2 nd. Find out if more chemo might be needed after the results of that test come back. Then another biopsy about day 35. Transplant could take place around day 42 the doctor said.

At this time (June 30) no transplant is scheduled. The disease became active again about mid June. Her blast numbers increased rapidly within just a weekend. Had they been able to do transplant (June 8) it would NOT have been successful, and she would have gone thru much trama for nothing. She has started another round of chemo aimed at controlling the MDS to lower blast levels.

Both the chemotherapy and the stem cell transfusion will be very hard on Diane. We ask for your prayers of strength and comfort on her behalf.

This site will be updated with Diane’s progress.