Bone marrow transplants

Happy Birthday to Me!

June 12, 2011

Today marks 13 years. 13 years since a very kind nurse stood next to my hospital bed, surrounded by my family, pushing my healthy stem cells through an IV back into a body that had been taken to the brink with high dose chemotherapy. There was praying. There was fear. There was watching to see [...]

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My anchor: the voice of Debbie Friedman

January 14, 2011

2011-01-14 . This week, the Jewish community mourns the loss of greatness. Debbie Friedman, a musician, left our world, leaving behind a legacy of music that forever changed the sounds and emotions of spiritual journeys everywhere.  For me, I was introduced to the music of Debbie Friedman when I was 23, by a good friend…ok…lets [...]

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My Baby: A reminder of hope

December 31, 2010

2010-12-31 While unpacking yet another box, I came across an anthology of essays that was created during a writing class that I took in 2003. I decided that my piece, written about my past, but from the perspective of my dad, was appropriate for where I am at this very moment in my life. It [...]

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A Song to Remember. A Song to Hope.

November 18, 2010

2010-11-18 . There is not much I remember about those days.  I remember my room- filled with cards, pictures…no flowers and only brand new stuffed animals. Old stuffed animals had germs- and germs in a transplant room are bad, bad, bad. The food was not my favorite. Every time the nurse brought me a “menu” [...]

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It's my 12th Birthday!

June 11, 2010

Today, June 12th 2010, is the day I turn 12.  Well ok, not quite. But it is the day that my bone marrow turns 12.  Maybe, sort of–I think 12 years ago I was “hanging out” at Georgetown Hospital with an IV hanging out of my chest (literally), after several days of yucky (and I [...]

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