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	<description>My personal journey, with aplastic anemia, through the healthcare industry</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>
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		<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>Update: My bone marrow accomplishes something</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bone marrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal best]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;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&#8217;t been much news. The last few months haven&#8217;t been much but waiting to see if my bone marrow decides to work or not. As of now my counts haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four weeks without RBCs and looking to fly</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/09/27/four-weeks-without-rbcs-and-looking-to-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[red blood cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transfusions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since being told to leave work immediately and report to an emergency room, I have went four weeks without a red blood transfusion. My counts have not risen, but they have started to fall less rapidly. My doctor used the phrase &#8220;seem to have stabilized a little,&#8221; which to me means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood, platelets, fewer meds, less time in the clinic and bricks</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/23/blood-platelets-fewer-meds-less-time-in-the-clinic-and-bricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aplastic anemia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ATG treatment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday I received three transfusions&#8212;-two units of  platelets and one unit of red blood cells. It&#8217;s still too early to tell if the ATG is working.  The first round of treatment was 41 days ago, as mentioned before 120 days is generally when the doctors have an idea of the serum&#8217;s effectiveness. My days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of giving blood</title>
		<link>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/22/two-seconds-five-percent-and-batting-30d/</link>
		<comments>http://mypiccline.com/2009/08/22/two-seconds-five-percent-and-batting-30d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m transfusion dependent. Without the blood of others, I&#8217;d be in bad shape. Its been that way for nearly eight weeks. Sorry to say I have never given blood, never given platelets. Not once. Something I read today&#8230;every 2 seconds someone in the United States needs blood. 5% of the eligible US population donates blood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transfusions, less pills and the new art show here at myPICCLine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week two transfusions total&#8212;one unit red blood cells, one unit platelets&#8212;both on Monday; rest of the week was clean. I&#8217;m 22 days post ATG treatment, another 100 (or so) days, according to the doctors, and we should start to have an idea of its efficacy. Three weeks ago I was taking 19 pills a [...]]]></description>
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