Words of Hope: The RSV Challenge

February 2009 Recovery into the beginning of January had been very promising.  My blood counts were on the rise and my body was acclimatizing to Isabel’s bone marrow.  I was…

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Words of Hope – Graph vs. Host

January 5th 2009 So we rolled over into my second year of treatment.  To summarize at this point, I spent the beginning of 2008 sick with headaches resulting from an…

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Words of Hope – Transplant!

Nov. 18th, 2008: Today, I had a bone marrow transplant.  It would prove to be the solution for a very big problem, an Acute Leukemia diagnosis.   The road to the…

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Word's of Hope – No Hope

Towards the end of the October I was writing about my donor being lost due to bronchitis and my liver starting to fail on top of three intensive rounds of…

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Words of Hope – Balancing Act

Oct 2008 versus Oct 2013 As I mentioned in the September blog, it was a weird time of recovery.  I had received the FLAM treatment in August and spent September…

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5th Year Anniversary

In 2008, I was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia.  I was told my singular option for survival was a bone marrow transplant.  I received the transplant in November, 2008; 5 years ago…

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Preamble to HeroPalooza

I have had a challenging and rewarding week that will culminate tomorrow at Hero Palooza.   I spent Saturday and Sunday with CAM and his family at Hopkins as he continues…

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