{"id":2600,"date":"2014-01-16T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:48:52","slug":"eighth-anniversary-of-my-autologous-stem-cell-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Eighth anniversary of my autologous stem cell transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Great health care professionals, chemotherapy, and prayer. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Here&#8217;s what I posted baack on the fifth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\">I could never quite figure why having your stem cells returned to you constituted a transplant, but that&#8217;s what they call it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\">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 &#8211; and they know what to do &#8211; isn&#8217;t nature wonderful!&nbsp;&#8211; to rebuild.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\">Here&#8217;s five years ago at Sloan Kettering. The precedure is very simple &#8211; like receiving a blood transfusion. I dozed off afterwards for a couple of hours, and Brigid said she enjoyed the peace and quiet &#8230; What was she getting at?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2006\/01\/transplant_went.html#tp\" target=\"_self\">Transplant went well <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brigid took this picture while I was getting back my cells &#8211; at least the nurse practitioner looks good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e2019b04cbb67d970d-400wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11905\" title=\"Transplant_1_16_06_007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e2019b04cbb67d970d-400wi.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e2019b04cbb67d970d-400wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great health care professionals, chemotherapy, and prayer. Here&#8217;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&#8217;s what they call it. Anyway, the idea is to re-build your immune system, after the high dose chemo has (hopefully) killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11906,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/11906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}