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Celebrating a 10 year SCT anniversary
Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) & CAR-T Cell Therapy | Last Active: 3 days ago | Replies (2)Comment receiving replies
@alive,
Typing through tears this morning after reading your post! Everyone else who has gone through this epic journey will be doing the same thing...reading with a tissue, dabbing tears!
Your @name says it all. @alive! Thank you so much for sharing such a poignant memory of 10 years ago! I'm sure it still feels like yesterday when you're recalling all you went through! Looking at the before and after photos, phewww, they tell your story of going through heck and back with your AML/SCT journey! The transformation is nothing short of miraculous! Your donor can be so proud of the amazing gift of life they provided. And you, I'm sure, found this incredible underlying strength you never knew you possessed! ☺️
You are truly an inspiration to all of us who have had a bone marrow/stem cell transplant for AML or any other reason! That there is HOPE on the other side of the transplant. You've reached a huge milestone with 10 years!! That gives us all a morale boost!!
Please accept my deepest heartfelt congratulations on this auspicious CELLebration! Happy 10th Re-birth day and cheers to a lifetime ahead! Hugs! Lori
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@loribmt Thank you, Lori! It’s great to look back and once again acknowledge that surviving AML is a miracle. To be able to live a full life after SCT is such a blessing!
On the day of the transplant there was a lot of hope, but no certainty that everything would work out. Sometimes clinging to hope and praying is all we can do in such circumstances.
I posted the same reflection on Facebook, and the first person who commented was my donor. He recalled donating his stem cells two days earlier in Germany. He didn’t know who the recipient was going to be, but that didn’t matter to him - he was saving a life and that was all that mattered.