My PICC Line

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 [...]

This Mayo Clinic video highlights the experiences of one leukemia survivor who underwent an autologous stem cell transplant, which means the cells used in transplant were her own. For those with aplastic anemia this is not an option, instead they must undergo and allogeneic transplant—-bone marrow(where stem cells that  give rise to blood cells are [...]