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November is National Marrow Awareness Month

Are you awaiting a bone marrow transplant? Did you know November is National Marrow Awareness Month? This may be the perfect time to plan a bone marrow drive! To plan a drive, simply call your local bone marrow recruitment center, and they will walk you through the process. Click here to find a recruitment center in your area.

Seventy percent of bone marrow patients do not have a matched dono…

My transplant is getting very close.

This is my first posting in quite some time. The last 6 months I have been waiting for different things to happen and it has been both an exciting and frustrating time. A friend who became a client of mine at the chiropractor asked me if she could donate one of her kidneys to me; I gladly accepted. She gave 13 vile's of blood and off to the lab it went. About 5 weeks later I got a phone call telling me that my friend was a very good match and that transplant might happen as soon as early Decembe…

New Here!

Hello Everyone,
I am new here so I just wanted to introduce myself. I had my liver transplant 16yrs ago in October. My name is Reagan and I live in Virginia. At 7 weeks my parents found out I had Biliary atresia. They did except me to live to the age of 2. I did great until the age of 10 or 11 and my liver started to fail. And when it did it effected my lungs and esophagus. I was on the list for 6 months before I got the call on October 6th 1993. My surgery last 24+ hours. When the went in they…

Liver labs not so good, yet again

I really was thinking positive and was sure numbers would be better this week, I kept telling myself that. I go today, had labs and visited with friends who were also their getting labs. Today was a great day. I come home, coordinator calls me says numbers are high again and even higher than before so I get to go back again next week for labs and MRI. I am not going to let this get to me though. I can handle this.

The other test about my disease wont be back for a week.

still waiting!

Still waiting with a MELD of 25....go up to a 28 as of Nov 22!