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	<description>My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry</description>
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		<title>Papa Joe says No</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/03/09/papa-joe-says-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aplastic anemia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow transplant]]></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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		<title>My Turn on the Table</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/03/05/my-turn-on-the-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worked for a pain management doctor before I was told I couldn&#8217;t work anymore. We did procedures. Laid the patient face down on the table and poked and prodded, usually, along the spine. Often the needles were large. Over a half of a year, I saw people react very differently to these &#8220;procedures.&#8221; Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update:Preparing for bone marrow transplant</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/02/26/updatepreparing-for-bone-marrow-transplant/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/02/26/updatepreparing-for-bone-marrow-transplant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[move cross country]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mypiccline.com/?p=1361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I offered an update of what&#8217;s going on with my health. Last time, I told you my bone marrow accomplished something. Turns out it wasn&#8217;t anything worth bragging about.
Two days ago I moved cross country. Moved into an apartment complex that&#8217;s population is entirely made up of transplant patients and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link PICC:CNN covers need for marrow donors</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/02/12/link-picccnn-covers-need-for-marrow-donors/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/02/12/link-picccnn-covers-need-for-marrow-donors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seun Adebiyi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CNN spoke with Seun Adebiyi on the need for people to join the marrow registry. Watch it here.
Love to see main stream media cover this, especially a four plus minute spot in the age of sound bite journalism. Adebiyi does a nice job of explaining the ease of registering to become a marrow donor. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Grandmother Walks Across the Country to Recruit Marrow Donors</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/02/05/a-grandmother-walks-across-the-country-to-recruit-marrow-donors/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/02/05/a-grandmother-walks-across-the-country-to-recruit-marrow-donors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grandmother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeana Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leukemia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marrow donors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[step to marrow]]></category>

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Jeana Moore is the grandmother of a leukemia survivor. Her granddaughter, Jada, received a bone marrow transplant at only seven months old, the donor was an unrelated one from Germany. After seeing a life saved, Jeana decided to literally take steps towards spreading awareness; she is walking across the continental United States in hope of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supervisors</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/02/02/supervisors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having removed my jacket for the upcoming blood draw, I sat down.  And would do so for the next hour.
Over 60 minutes I observed many things. One, after having trouble inserting IVs into the arms of a few of the older patients the two nurses on duty were running behind schedule. Two, the other patients around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seun&#8217;s Story</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/27/seuns-story/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/27/seuns-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2014 Olympics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seun Adebiyi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seun's Skeleton Blog]]></category>

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Seun Adebiyi is 26 and has an Ivy League education. He has a great job and a a shot at being an Olympian in 2014. Adebiyi has cancer. Lymphoblastic lymphoma and stem-cell leukemia, the cure is a stem cell transplant. For now Adebiyi has not been able to find a bone marrow match and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Donate Bone Marrow</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/26/how-to-donate-bone-marrow/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/26/how-to-donate-bone-marrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[misconceptions bone marrow donation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I have never swabbed my cheek for another person or even donated blood. Now I rely on people not like me to live. Gulp.
I&#8217;ve tried to make up for my apathy by nagging others to join the marrow registry and posting here on the misconceptions associated with marrow donation. This video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bone Marrow Donor Compensation Debate Rages on</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/25/the-bone-marrow-donor-compensation-debate-rages-on/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/25/the-bone-marrow-donor-compensation-debate-rages-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This letter from the chief executive of the National Marrow Donor Program, Jeffrey W.Chell, and the president of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Claudio Anasetti, appeared in the New York Times last week. They argue that changing current laws that bar bone marrow donors from being compensated is a mistake.
&#8220;International standard-setting organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aplastic Anemia patient Shawntell Taylor shares her story</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/22/aplastic-anemia-patient-shawntell-taylor-shares-her-story/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/22/aplastic-anemia-patient-shawntell-taylor-shares-her-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aplastic anemia]]></category>
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Shawntell Taylor is a survivor. She was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia in 2004 has since underwent three unsuccessful interventions, including two rounds of ATG. Taylor explains in the above clip she also had two unrelated donors &#8220;cancel on me.&#8221; 
Like I said, Shawntell Taylor is a survivor.

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