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I Can't Decide Between Allogeneic or Autologous Transplant
Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) & CAR-T Cell Therapy | Last Active: 4 days ago | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
@loribmt Hi Lori, I meant to respond to your last comment but I got distracted. I'm being admitted this Saturday the 15th. I've been wanting this day to come and now I'm 5 days away and I am still feeling pretty anxious and nervous about everything. I don't know why I feel so much fear. This procedure is supposed to give me my life back, so I'm trying to understand where all the fear is coming from or what's it trying to tell me. I've just lost so much from this disease that I'm afraid I won't get them back 💔 😪 I just want to be on the other side of this. I see so many positive stories from other people of who went through a stem cell transplant and they're living their lives again. I'm trying to walk in faith and believe God will do it for me, it's just hard sometimes.
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@chrissyade19
Chrissy, it’s absolutely normal to have anxiety when you’re facing any unknown, especially a potentially life altering procedure. But the upside of all of this IS getting your life back. While it may not include reversing your sickle cell, this could allow your auto-immune diseases; scleroderma and RA to subside, which would be huge!
I remember you telling me that you’re at Mayo-Rochester. That’s my home away from home and I firmly believe that you’re in the best care possible! I also am pretty sure once you begin the journey, instead of being on the sidelines waiting, that most of your anticipation and anxiety will melt away. Let your team guide you along. You can trust them to do the worrying for you and to make your transplant journey and recovery as easy as possible.
Is there any information that I can provide for you? Have you had your stem cell harvesting yet?