{"id":2989,"date":"2012-01-16T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:02:00","slug":"sixth-anniversary-of-my-stem-cell-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"Sixth anniversary of my stem cell transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. Great health professionals, chemotherapy and prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s what I posted last year on the fifth anniversary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I could never quite figure why having your stem cells returned to you constituted a transplant, but that&#39;s what they call it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">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&#39;t nature wonderful!&#0160;- to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Here&#39;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?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2006\/01\/transplant_went.html#tp\">http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2006\/01\/transplant_went.html#tp<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">or here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2006\/01\/transplant_went.html#tp\" target=\"_self\">Transplant went well <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. Great health professionals, chemotherapy and prayer. Here&#39;s what I posted last year on the fifth anniversary. I could never quite figure why having your stem cells returned to you constituted a transplant, but that&#39;s what they call it. Anyway, the idea is to re-build your immune system, after the high dose chemo has (hopefully) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}