I worked for a pain management doctor before I was told I couldn’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 “procedures.” Some [...]
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 [...]
I’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’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 [...]
I haven’t done a personal update in awhile, mostly because constantly updating my own condition would quickly make this blog annoying. But also because there hasn’t been much news. The last few months haven’t been much but waiting to see if my bone marrow decides to work or not. As of now my counts haven’t [...]
In 1984 the United States government established the Organ Transplant Act banning the selling of organ and tissue. And while arguments can be made as to the ethics of profiting off solid organs, the argument of profiting off bone marrow presents a murkier case. In an opinion piece appearing in the Sun News, George Mason [...]
The Roman philosopher Cicero said “In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.” At times you will meet a doctor who buys this. More times, however, you will meet patients who do. As was the case with an older gentleman I spoke with briefly in a waiting room [...]
Many of my friends and family members have joined the national bone marrow registry since all this happened. Some were motivated by the global impact of the gesture, others were hoping to help me in particular; either way the act is noteworthy. I’m going to hop up on the soap box here for a second. [...]
Over the last two weeks I’ve received five transfusions total, three last week and two this week. At my most recent visit the doctor explained to me we’re approaching “crunch time,” if my body is responding to the ATG my blood counts should move closer to normal over the next few weeks. A basketball coach [...]
I hate to bring up the past, but here’s a story. Three weeks ago, before I knew my brother was not a match, before I underwent the ATG treatment, I met with the bone marrow transplant team. Standard procedure. Thought being, if my brother is a match we have all the semantics out of the [...]
For the last three days we’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties here at www.mypiccline.com, I received quite a few e-mails saying the HOME page would not load, all the while the administrative/writing end was having its own issues. After consulting with a few media experts (I’m a newbie to all this) most of the problems have diminished, although some readers may still experience difficulty [...]
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