As we drove to my biopsy today I thought about my dear friend Carolyn Tam.   She was a fellow cancer warrior from Canada.  We exchanged many encouraging emails and I always enjoyed our gmail exchanges.    Although we never got to give each other a hug in person,  I was inspired by her drive, optimism [...]

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When I talk to people about marrow registration or Project Michelle, I’m quick to write or talk about how thousands of patients are looking for matches every day, but it’s still difficult for me when I actually learn about a specific patient’s story. Today was one of those days. My heart sank when I read [...]

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Today we met with the attending, Dr. Pagel, and the blue team nurse to go over all of the consent forms for the cord blood transplant and to go over our transplant schedule. Dr. Delaney likes to say that “repetition is the key to learning” and I think that’s the Hutch’s motto because we have [...]

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When I found out that I would be #10 on Dr. Delaney’s expansion protocol, I got freaked out. Being an information hoarder, I wanted to be like #1,253,999 or something so I could get reliable and concrete statistics about this protocol. I wanted to be on a successful protocol that has been around for at [...]

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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
- Oogway from the movie Kung Fu Panda
Inspiring quote huh? Never did I imagine that I would gain so much insight from a cartoon tortoise. (Thanks Young for taking me to go see it.) It’s something [...]

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