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Originally Posted by Fishwhenican
While this sucks, Merek, I am glad that you have such a good attitude and feel a little bit honored that you would share something like this with all of us in the Lounge.
I think this will be a fascinating story to follow (with hopefully a good outcome) and I am sure there will be plenty of folks here who will follow and will care about how you are doing. I know I will.
Hang in there and keep up the good attitude. I do believe that a persons mental outlook can effect how they do with recovery from things like this and it sure looks like you have that part whipped.
Thanks Fish
It least it finally gave me a Thread idea to meet the high lounge standards.
Seems better than "worst hair band of all time"
There are some interesting bits.
Like
Bone Marrow transplants... I can use my own. And they don't take it from my bones.
The old way was, find a bone marrow match(which was hard), suck their marrow with 2 ft long needles in a very painful way, inject marrow into donor and add rejection drugs by the bucket.... pray it works.
With this cancer. They give you drugs to make your stem cells leave the marrow and go to the blood. Then they filter your blood for 2-4 hrs a day for a week or so. Need to collect 9 million or so. Treat the stem cells and freeze for later use. They usually collect enough for two or three treatments just in case you learn to like it. This cancer is incurable, but treatable so many people go for round two, years later.
And with using your own stem cells, rejection is not a issue.
The nasty bit is between the chemo and when the re-added stem cells graft. They take a couple of week to wander around and find a bone that meets their high accomadation standards. Until then you produce no blood cells of any kind. I think I will sleep through these 2 weeks, as they do not sound fun.