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	<title>My PICC Line &#187; bone marrow transplant</title>
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		<title>127 days post transplant</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/07/24/127-days-post-transplant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<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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		<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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow transplant]]></category>
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		<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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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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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[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>Second response letter to Blue Cross Blue Shield&#8217;s denial of coverage for donor search</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/14/second-response-letter-to-blue-cross-blue-shields-denial-of-coverage-for-donor-search/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/14/second-response-letter-to-blue-cross-blue-shields-denial-of-coverage-for-donor-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aplastic anemia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October I posted my letter of appeal after Blue Cross Blue Shield&#8217;s told me it would not cover my bone marrow donor search. After hearing no response for several weeks I resent the letter certified and finally heard back. The verdict was&#8230;there was no verdict.
My appeal was not reviewed because I did not provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bone Marrow Transplant offers possible cure to adults with Sickle Cell Anemia, according to study</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/07/bone-marrow-transplant-offers-possible-cure-to-adults-with-sickle-cell-anemia-according-to-study/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2010/01/07/bone-marrow-transplant-offers-possible-cure-to-adults-with-sickle-cell-anemia-according-to-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have for the first time performed a successful bone marrow transplant to cure sickle cell disease in adults, according to the Los Angeles Times.  The team reported it has developed a much-less-toxic transplant procedure and used it to cure nine of the first 10 patients studied.
The hereditary disorder primarily effects  those of African [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climber shares his experiences with Aplastic anemia and bone marrow transplant</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/12/27/climber/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/12/27/climber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s a short feature on Matt Fioretti at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance website. Fioretti, a mountain climber and guide, was diagnosed with aplastic anemia a short time after leading a climb along Nirekha Peak, in the Himalayas.
When reflecting on the  bone marrow transplant he eventually underwent he says,  “My attitude was good. There were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATG treatment: 120 days, 90 days, 60 days, 6 months!? Oh my&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/11/30/atg-treatment-120-days-90-days-60-days-6-months-oh-my/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/11/30/atg-treatment-120-days-90-days-60-days-6-months-oh-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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Its been 140 days since ATG treatment, and as of now it has been unsuccessful. The treatment is based in the thought that aplastic anemia is an autoimmune disease&#8212;the bodies white blood cells  have attacked it&#8217;s bone marrow, causing the marrow to fail and blood production to diminish. Since onset I&#8217;ve heard a variety of numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anything for me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/11/03/anything-for-me/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/11/03/anything-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Janet Liang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Barner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I check my e-mail often. Once, twice, fifteen times a day. My messages are always read in the order they&#8217;re received.
The first is from an old friend who wants to do know what they can do to help. Anything, they write, really anything you need. They ask me how I&#8217;m feeling, if I think I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five on Friday: Facts on Bone Marrow Donation</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/10/30/five-facts-on-bone-marrow-donation/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/10/30/five-facts-on-bone-marrow-donation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>
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As I start hearing the words &#8220;bone marrow transplant&#8221; more and more, I also hear more and more ignorance as to what it actually means to be a bone marrow donor. The following information was collected directly from marrow.org, the National Marrow Donor Program website and my own personal experience undergoing a bone marrow biopsy [...]]]></description>
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