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fezo · 02-22-2012, 12:02 AM

OK, what happened to the February posts?

In case someone who wants to know missed it here was the basic post.....

Well, we have a date. March 19. They put me in the hospital and cut me up the first day. Oddly, no cutting for the transplant or anything. This is to put in a catheter they need. I assume it will be like when they put in my port - they knock you out and you wake up with the thing in there. Then they start chemo to knock out the old marrow right away. There goes my hair. If they want it for wig material they can have it. Otherwise I'll give the younger girls my ponytail and let the barber in there shave my head to avoid waiting that out.

Turns out I am a clinical trial of 52 patients. Not the first time I've been a guinea pig. They give me paperwork with this that lists about 8 ways this could kill me but that is stuff they have to say. That part ain't happening, folks.

My donor is identified only as a 57 year old American male. If he can't do it for some reason the backup is a guy from outside the US about the same age. The backup to the backup is a woman that I know nothing about because one of those first two will work. The way they treat this is how I'd want it. The donor and I can't know each other for a year. After that if we both want it then we can. Their reasoning, which I already had decided on independently for the same reason, is that after a year I'm out of the woods. Wouldn't want to go meet the guy and then have it go terribly wrong.

I'll change blood types! I'm AB+ but the donor (either guy) is O+. As the new marrow starts producing it will be O+. It will also have his DNA even though everything else will have my regular old DNA. Amazing.

02-22-2012, 12:02 AM	#309
fezo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Manahawkin, NJ, 08050 Posts: 806	Re: Keep me in mind OK, what happened to the February posts? In case someone who wants to know missed it here was the basic post..... Well, we have a date. March 19. They put me in the hospital and cut me up the first day. Oddly, no cutting for the transplant or anything. This is to put in a catheter they need. I assume it will be like when they put in my port - they knock you out and you wake up with the thing in there. Then they start chemo to knock out the old marrow right away. There goes my hair. If they want it for wig material they can have it. Otherwise I'll give the younger girls my ponytail and let the barber in there shave my head to avoid waiting that out. Turns out I am a clinical trial of 52 patients. Not the first time I've been a guinea pig. They give me paperwork with this that lists about 8 ways this could kill me but that is stuff they have to say. That part ain't happening, folks. My donor is identified only as a 57 year old American male. If he can't do it for some reason the backup is a guy from outside the US about the same age. The backup to the backup is a woman that I know nothing about because one of those first two will work. The way they treat this is how I'd want it. The donor and I can't know each other for a year. After that if we both want it then we can. Their reasoning, which I already had decided on independently for the same reason, is that after a year I'm out of the woods. Wouldn't want to go meet the guy and then have it go terribly wrong. I'll change blood types! I'm AB+ but the donor (either guy) is O+. As the new marrow starts producing it will be O+. It will also have his DNA even though everything else will have my regular old DNA. Amazing.