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Logan underwent a course of rigorous chemotherapy and four days of full-body radiation to kill his bone marrow, leaving him de- fenseless against infection. Once the donor's marrow was trans- fused into his little body, doctors and the family waited for his blood counts to build. 'When you start out with a count of zero and within two weeks you have something like 200, you become ecstatic," Ms. Weiss said. The counts continued to rise until a month after the trans- plant, when Logan's body began to reject the donor's marrow. "You can't imagine what that is like until it happens. Time be- came so critical, and the wait was unbearable," she said. A second transplant was or- dered after the donor agreed to undergo the marrow harvesting procedure again. By the end of May, Logan's counts began to rise again. "That Logan is here with us now is a miracle," Ms. Weiss said. "A lot of the kids don't make it." Ms. Weiss, never before a be- liever in prayer, said she is con- vinced that it is one factor that helped Logan to survive. Prayers were offered for his recovery in synagogues, temples, Catholic churches and prayer circles in several countries. "I believe it helped absolute- ly," she said. Logan continues his recovery in Bloomfield Hills, enjoying the company of his sister, Layne, and brother, Devin, and visits from grandparents Henry and Mala Dorfman and Lily and Michael Weiss. Meanwhile, two other bone marrow transplant patients with ties to the local Jewish commu- nity continue their trek toward health while another searches for his match. Huntington Woods resident Lauren Cohn has been in Seat- tle in treatment for almost two months, after a marrow donor was located. The 4-year-old suf- fered a relapse of acute lympho- cytic leukemia in the spring. Her family could not be reached this week for comment. Ava (Segal) Vinton, a 40-year- old former Oak Park resident with ovarian cancer, won her bat- tle with an insurance company and is undergoing an autologous or self-generated bone marrow transplant in Seattle. Ms. Vinton's sister, Sue Wa- genheim of Walled Lake, spent two weeks with her after the transplant was performed. Al- though Ms. Segal became very sick from the chemotherapy doc- tors administered to kill her bone marrow, she has quickly recov- ered and is now in the process of regenerating her immune sys- tem. She is expected to return to her home in Montana before the end of the year. "We are very positive about it. She is on course for what she has to go through," Ms. Wagenheim said. Through an appeal in the com- munity, Ms. Wagenheim was able to raise $8,000, which will help defray expenses not covered by insurance. - "I really want to thank people for their wishes, their prayers and their donations," she said. "My sister was buoyed by the support from people here." Coby Levi, a 3-year-old from Teaneck, N.J., continues his search for a match. Although several drives held on his behalf have netted matches for other cancer patients, his unique blood characteristics have excluded him from finding a perfect match. He is the grandson of Benno and Ruth Levi of Oak Park. This weekend and next week- end, 20 more drives in cities from Los Angeles to New York will be held for Coby and three other Jewish people searching for bone marrow matches. The goal of the organizers is to add as many Jewish names to the National Marrow Donor Registry as pos- sible. A Match For Life, a local dri- ve in late June for Lauren and Coby, netted almost 8,000 entries into the national registry. And a registry started in 1985 to find a _ match for Brandon Weiss has added more than 13,000 names of possible marrow donors. `There was a match for Bran- don, but the donor was sick and couldn't donate," Ms. Weiss said. 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