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@athenalee

Well, I did some research. There’s only been a couple of reported cases involving DNA oddities in crimes, which were due to stem cell transplant. A number of investigative medical journal articles on it though…warning criminal investigators of the potential. I bet Sir Conan Doyle would have been all over it if he was living today!

Here’s a link to an article about doctors studying how long it took for a man’s cells and DNA to change…even his sperm DNA changed to that of his donor! Think about the ramifications of that! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/dna-bone-marrow-transplant-crime-lab.html

When I first started taking ursodial it caused hair loss, but not nearly as bad as Tacrolimus. I adjusted and doesn’t seem to affect me…hopefully it works well for us both! Definitely trade offs and certainly life is unpleasant sometimes, but as you say, we wouldn’t be here today without our transplants!

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My husband and I read that article too! It came out within the first year of my transplant and had our eyebrows raising!! Haha. I wondered what my future would hold. Well, here I am 2 years out and nothing outward has happened. 😂. There are still so many unknowns!!