Amber’s Story

Site created on June 18, 2019

Hey all! On June 10th our sweet girl was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Amber was admitted to the Knight Cancer Institute at OHSU on Monday June 17th. Today, Tuesday June 18th Amber begins an intense chemo regimen for 7 days followed by a 3 day treatment of an alternative chemo. She will be at OHSU for a minimum of 30 days. Due to her treatment and lowered immune system, she is unable to have visitors (aside from family) but would love texts, Facebook messages and good old fashioned mail. If you would like to send her something in the mail, no fruits or flowers, please send them to Amber Henderson 3181 Sam Jackson Park Road (KPV14) RM 20 Portland, OR 97239.  


This site will provide all of us who love her with updates, journal entries, pictures and a place for you to leave messages of love, dirty jokes and words encouragement. 

The road to recovery is gonna be a long one but she is STRONG and she is FIERCE 🧡

Newest Update

Journal entry by Amanda Lindsey

7 Rounds of chemo
8 different cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs
59 days of chemotherapy infusions
100’s of Golden Girls episodes 
274 total days hospitalized 
457 Days Fighting her Ass off
6000 miles and more traveling for treatment
10,000 tears And 1,000,000 pleads and prayers have all lead us to today.

Today, 457 days later, Amber Jo is in REMISSION 🧡

Going forward, Amber will be on an at home chemotherapy. With her high risk diagnosis, her care team wants her on a chemotherapy regimen to reduce her risk of relapse. She will take the oral chemo for 7 days every 4 weeks while being monitored by her care team bi monthly. They will monitor her because this chemo can cause counts to drop and hers are on the lower end to start. Another bone marrow biopsy will be done after the first 2 rounds of chemo. 

Thank you all for your unwavering support and prayers. She wouldn’t be where she is today without it. Now we can focus on planning a trip somewhere with blue water and ice cold beverages because.....Today is the first day of the rest of her life ❤️
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