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08-22-17 10:00 pm
Blood Cancer Journey
If you are reading this while facing your own diagnosis, know this: you are not alone.
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08-14-12 8:30 pm
Consolidation Chemotherapy
July 2012 thru August 2012 HiDAC While still being evaluated for a matched unrelated donor transplant, I was re-admitted on July 8 for consolidation chemotherapy with high-dose ara-C, known as HiDAC. Because of the high dose, I had to pass cerebellar and neurotoxicity checks before each treatm...
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09-28-12 3:45 pm
High Dose Myeloablative Chemotherapy & Bone Marrow Transplant
August 2012 thru September 2012 More Warnings On August 14, my family, including Jolynn, Ando, my parents, and my brother, met with Dr. Matsui to review the bone marrow stem cell transplant and its potential side effects. For me, much of it repeated what Dr. Schweizer had already explained the...
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11-21-12 8:00 am
Acute Graft versus Host Disease
September 2012 thru November 2012 Tummy Pain On September 30, my stomach started hurting badly. The pain came in waves. I had constant diarrhea and could barely eat. Even touching my stomach hurt. I vomited several times. I called IPOP and explained what was happening. They paged a doctor,...
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01-14-14 4:30 pm
Recovering and Moving On
December 2012 thru January 2014 A Card from My Unknown Genetic Twin At the end of December, I received a card in the mail from my donor. Because of hospital policy, I was not allowed to know who my donor was for one year. Her name had been blacked out before the card reached me. From the handw...
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08-22-17 9:00 am
Five Years Later
January 2014 thru August 2017 Five Years Later It has been five years since my bone marrow stem cell transplant. So far, there have been no issues with my blood. I often think back to 2012 and 2013. Those years feel both distant and close at the same time. People sometimes ask me if I woul...