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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
@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?
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@loribmt I'm actually at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, which is where I live, but I assume the same level of care is across all of the Mayo campuses. I just worry about my hands a lot; scleroderma and RA have really affected them and I wonder how much the transplant will help them. I miss being able to use them.
I'm getting my stem cells harvested tomorrow. I'm praying that tomorrow will be enough and I will not have to do it again. I've gotten four injections so far and I'm kind of over it.