Check out photos of a card I received from AADP a few weeks ago. I can’t believe 4 patients have already received stem cell transplants because of our Project Michelle efforts. Note, that these stats are just from AADP. I bet other Project Michelle drives outside of the SF Bay Area have [...]

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It’s good to be online blogging again!  Thank you for all of your concerned messages when the site was down.
Like Van said all of my test results are coming back clean.  I was especially excited about the negative MRI scans.  No leukemia cells in the noggin!  I also got my 2nd skin biopsy back and [...]

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Hey everyone, we’re really sorry that the website was down the past 6 days. Don’t worry, our technical issues did not reflect anything medical related. In fact, Michelle is doing quite well. See our prior post on the bone marrow biopsy results (which were negative) and our tentatively scheduled discharge date.
Since then Michelle has pretty [...]

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In September 2008, Lauren Rudser, a graduate student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, contacted us and was interested in sharing our story through a documentary. We thought it was a great idea, and we hope it provides a glimpse into the life of patients looking for a donor for a bone marrow transplant.
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For those of you that know me well, you know that I’m not big on birthdays, holidays and general celebrations. Last week though, a good friend and I were talking about how Thanksgiving is probably one of the best holidays. It’s a relatively simple celebration that hasn’t been too commercialized and has no real obligations. [...]

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