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	<description>My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry</description>
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		<title>Feeling a way through</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/10/02/feeling-a-way-through/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Out of the McDream World</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/28/get-out-of-the-mcdream-world/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/28/get-out-of-the-mcdream-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Derek Shepherd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grey's Anatomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Grey’s Anatomy last week, Dr. Derek Shepherd (enough playing, McDreamy) is called in from home to soothe a young man unhinged with pain after a highly invasive surgery. The attending physician has already tried morphine with no relief. Where heavy narcotics fail, McDreamy flourishes. After placating the patient he turns to the worried mother, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illness and loneliness</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/22/illness-and-loneliness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[allogeneic transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aplastic anemia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autologous transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isolation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loneliness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mypiccline.com/?p=1662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Smells like Bad Team Spirit</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/17/smells-like-bad-team-spirit/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/17/smells-like-bad-team-spirit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collection agency. medical bills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[member]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[premium]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year health insurance companies reported robust profits while everyone else slumped dreadfully. Eyebrows were raised and practices came under question. How much of an institution founded on partnership with the patient still gives the patient a thought in their meeting rooms? Many insist quite a bit. According to a Gallup poll released last year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping the tiger tame</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/14/keeping-the-tiger-tame/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/14/keeping-the-tiger-tame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graft vs. Host Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GVHD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenny G]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organ transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stem cell transplant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mypiccline.com/?p=1474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the keys to a successful solid organ (or tissue)transplant is convincing the recipient&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to do with all this access?</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/09/what-to-do-with-all-this-access/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/09/what-to-do-with-all-this-access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Pauline Chen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way to meet a friend last week I happened upon a car going 20 mph under the listed speed and weaving like he just left happy hour. When passing (and hoping to make eye contact to show my displeasure) it was revealed the offender was too absorbed in his mobile to look up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Labor Day!</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/06/happy-labor-day/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/09/06/happy-labor-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Labor Day to All. In the thick of my treatment I continued to write essays here and there and will be posting them to the site. I&#8217;ve started to edit one a week and will post as the proofs are finished. In the interest of the blog, each essay will be back-posted to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>127 days post transplant</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/07/24/127-days-post-transplant/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/07/24/127-days-post-transplant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mypiccline.com/?p=1432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought about posting something here for awhile. A friend asked me what&#8217;s the delay, a lot of things I guess. Some of it was laziness and lethargy, some of it the insecurity that clings to all writing, but mostly it was doubt; doubting that the last four months could be done justice in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leave it glow</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/03/12/leave-it-glow/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/03/12/leave-it-glow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ibuprofen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tylenol]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mypiccline.com/?p=1534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In waiting rooms people watch and read and talk. If it’s a crowd that starts to recognize itself they talk to skip over the uncertainties engendered just watching or reading. Lynn has been looking at me but not saying anything for the last few visits. She wants the details. After our fourth consecutive Wednesday together [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Papa Joe says No</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/03/09/papa-joe-says-no/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/03/09/papa-joe-says-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aplastic anemia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caregiver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papa Joe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My move to the West Coast has meant spending most of my time seeing doctors. A good bone marrow transplant demands preparation. But when there is some down time, it&#8217;s spent with my caregiver. She&#8217;s the only person I know out here. She&#8217;s also my mother. She has a thing for asking me questions about [...]]]></description>
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