Great health care professionals, chemotherapy, and prayer.
Here’s what I posted baack on the fifth anniversary.
I could never quite figure why having your stem cells returned to you constituted a transplant, but that’s what they call it.
Anyway, the idea is to re-build your immune system, after the high dose chemo has (hopefully) killed off the remaining lingering cancer cells. The side effect is that the chemo gives your immune system a drubbing, and hence the need for the stem cells – and they know what to do – isn’t nature wonderful! – to rebuild.
Here’s five years ago at Sloan Kettering. The precedure is very simple – like receiving a blood transfusion. I dozed off afterwards for a couple of hours, and Brigid said she enjoyed the peace and quiet … What was she getting at?
Brigid took this picture while I was getting back my cells – at least the nurse practitioner looks good!
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