{"id":3260,"date":"2011-01-16T16:43:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:57:19","slug":"five-years-ago-today-i-had-my-stem-cell-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3260","title":{"rendered":"Five years ago today &#8211; I had my stem cell transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>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 forthe stem cells &#8211; and they know what to do &#8211; isn&#39;t nature wonderful!&#0160;- to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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>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) killed off the remaining lingering cancer cells. The side effect is that the chemo gives your immune [&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-3260","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\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}