On June 30 I underwent a bone marrow biopsy and aspiration. The procedure was done while lying on my hospital bed, it took about 20 minutes and was many things, none of them being pleasant. By the following day, after analysis of the samples they had my diagnosis. So, what is aplastic anemia?
I dont know if it was the severity of my condition, or the fact that my mother is good friends with a big cheese at the hospital, but I didn’t sit in the little waiting room out side the ER for more than 10 minutes. I was on a stretcher, IV’s were inserted at my wrist [...]
I’ll start from the beginning. Nine months ago I had routine bloodwork for a routine physical, and life went on. I assumed no news, after a blood test, was good news. If there was a problem the doctor, the nurse, someone would have called. I was wrong. Eight weeks ago I started to notice patches [...]
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