My PICC Line

My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry

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Entries Tagged ‘cord blood’

Seun’s Story

Jan.27, 2010 in healthcare

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 [...]

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Link PICCs:myths of marrow donation, saving cord blood, reasons people don’t donate blood and what healthcare reform has forgotten

Jan.21, 2010 in Link PICCs

Kevin Walsh, the author of The Marrow in Me as well as a past bone marrow donor and television anchor discusses five myths associated with marrow donation. BBC reports on a woman in the United Kingdom wants to donate her soon-to-be-born baby’s cord blood to help others. The trouble is she can’t. The stems cells [...]

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I'm Matt Sheehan. In July 2009, I learned that I was suffering from the blood disease aplastic anemia. What exactly caused it I may never know. What I do know is that for the next few years, I will endure thousands of hospital hours and the bureaucracy and confusion of the U.S. health care industry. I'd like to share my experiences. Please come back often.

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