Saturday, July 31, 2010

My Stem Cells Are Back

The whole process took about two hours. The three bags of stem cells came inside a liquid nitrogen container. It looked very science fiction. Each bag was defrosted in a warm water bath and added to my drip line. At that point it looked like a regulare blood transfusion. There were assorted other drugs added to the drip to prevent vomiting and to prevent other side effects from the preservative they had added to the stem cells for freezing. That was all over bt 10:30 AM. Now the stem cells have to find their way into the bone marrow to replace the ones we killed two days ago.

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