Two weeks ago marked the sixth month anniversary of my bone marrow transplant. I wrote the following in the weeks after leaving the hospital. The marrow has arrived downstairs, the nurse says. It needs to go through some final tests before we can start. My mom hands my dad a sheet with a prayer and [...]
The diagnosis rate of aplastic anemia is three people out of every million and when a sample of my bone marrow confirmed what blood tests were suggesting, I remember feeling that ratio sit heavy in my stomach. Sickness forces a person to confront an uncomfortable truth; despite the instability of our own lives, the world [...]
One of the keys to a successful solid organ (or tissue)transplant is convincing the recipient’s body to accept the donation. In these scenarios the body is a prowling tiger and the new tissue an alluring prey. Luckily, drugs like Cyclosporin and Tacrolimus can tranquilize the beast and organ rejection can be prevented. In bone marrow and stem [...]
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